Medal: Alfonso de Brandeligi Trotti
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On the obverse is a portrait of Alfonso de Brandeligi
Trotti; the reverse is blank. Trotti was a composer from
a distinguished Ferrarese family. In 1514 he sent a motet
(“In Te Speravi”) to Pope Leo X. Trotti’s epitaph is in
San Bernardino Church in Ferrara. This old aftercast is
possibly from the seventeenth century.
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