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ITALY. Papal States. Nicholas V (Tommaso Parentucelli), 1447-1455. Seal or Bulla (Lead, 39.5 mm, 40.07 g, 12 h), Rome. S PA S PE Nimbate facing heads of St. Paul, bald and with a long, linear beard, on the left and St. Peter, with curly hair and beard composed of pellets, on the right; between them, Latin cross on a long staff and base; all within a circular, dotted border . Rev. + / •NICO/LAVS/ •PP• V• in four lines, the whole within a circular dotted border. Serafini 49-50. Brown surfaces; clear strike. Good very fine.
From the Dr. Pelc Dens Sapientiae Collection, USA.
Nicholas V was an intellectual and a scholar who both loved books (some, with his own annotations, still remain in the Vatican library) and was also greatly concerned with the rebuilding and embellishment of the city of Rome. He was a patron of the arts and can be said to have truly brought the Renaissance to Rome. His greatest disappointment must have been his inability to save Constantinople from falling to the Ottomans in 1453. He had attempted to unite western Christendom in a crusade to save Constantinople fell flat, and the small fleet (including Papal galleys and some from Venice, Genoa and Naples) he was able to send only arrived after the city's fall. He did, however, managed to get quite a number of manuscripts saved from city's libraries.
From the Dr. Pelc Dens Sapientiae Collection, USA.
Nicholas V was an intellectual and a scholar who both loved books (some, with his own annotations, still remain in the Vatican library) and was also greatly concerned with the rebuilding and embellishment of the city of Rome. He was a patron of the arts and can be said to have truly brought the Renaissance to Rome. His greatest disappointment must have been his inability to save Constantinople from falling to the Ottomans in 1453. He had attempted to unite western Christendom in a crusade to save Constantinople fell flat, and the small fleet (including Papal galleys and some from Venice, Genoa and Naples) he was able to send only arrived after the city's fall. He did, however, managed to get quite a number of manuscripts saved from city's libraries.