Watch List notes:

Commemorative Medals, Foreign Medals, Italy, Venice, Giovanni I Cornaro (1551-1625-1629), 96th Doge, bronze memorial medal, 1647, by Gioacchino Francesco Travani (active 1634-1675), bust l., wearing ermine cope and Doge's cap, IO CORNELIVS DVX VENET OBIIT A D MDCXXIX, below truncation ÆT S 78, rev. legend in nine lines, ÆTERNAE IN PATREM OPTIMVM ..., 47.5mm. (Voltolina 937; Serenissima II, lot 39; V&T, Bargello, II/501), very fine
The medal was commissioned by the Doge's son, Cardinal (1626) Federico Corner (1579-1653), who was to be the Patriarch of Venice from 1631-1644; his brother was Francesco Corner, who had the shortest rule of any Doge (19 days, 17 May to 5 June 1656).
(600-800 GBP)