Lot 372: ANDREA GUACIALOTI (1435-1495) Niccolò Palmieri,

ANDREA GUACIALOTI (1435-1495) Niccolò Palmieri, bishop of Orte (1455-1467), bronze medal, nude and tonsured bust left; around, NVDVS EGRESVS SIC REDIBO ('born naked, thus I shall return'), rev., a Genius, nude, standing on a plinth, holding an hourglass and leaning on a staff; signed below, ANDREAS GVACIALOTIS, 63.6mm (Hill 742; Armand I, 49, 5 var.), a very fine contemporary cast of excellent quality, with brown patina"

Ex Münz Zentrum 76, Cologne, 26 November 1993, lot 2229. This is the first version of the medal, made within the lifetime of Palmieri. There are two other versions with engraved memorial inscriptions, made after his death in 1467.