210, Lot: 384. Estimate $150. Sold for $111. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papal Medals. Clement VIII (Ippolito Aldobrandini). 1592-1605. Æ Medal (37mm, 21.81 g, 12h). Giorgio Rancetti, engraver. Dated 1601. · CLEMENS · VIII · PONT · MAX · A · X ·, bust left, wearing zucchetto and mantum / · PAX ET SA-LVS ADOMINO, allegory of Peace standing facing, head right, holding long cross and torch; cuirass to right; · M · DCI · in exergue. Mazio 163; Lincoln 862-3; cf. DDL pl. XXIII, 9 (rev.). EF.

From the Luparello Collection.

A Florentine student of law from a modest background, Clement VIII sought a foreign policy which distanced the Vatican from Spain and toward France, ending the religious war and gaining a powerful ally. He issued many decrees against Jews, including where to live and what to sell, and banned the reading of the Talmud. The later part of his papacy was affected by his poor health which left him bedridden for much of it.