 |
CLEMENT XI(November 23, 1700 — March 19, 1721) |
 |
Æ Obv.: CLEM • XI • P • M | CREA • XXIII • NOV • MDCCC • (beneath bust:) HAMERANVS • F Bust of the pope, r., wearing Tiara and cope. |
 |
Rev.: BENEDIXIT • FILVS | IN TE • (in exergue:) 1700 Ceremony of the Closing of the Holy Door, Christmas 1700. The Pope is laying the first brick on the threshhold. Spink 1594-1595. |
 |
Æ Obv.: CLEMENS • | XI • PONT: M: A: III • Bust of the pope, r., wearing camauro, mozzetta and stole. |
 |
Rev.: HAVRIETIS • IN • GAVDIO Harbor of Civitavecchia. Engraver: Ferdinando Saint-Urbain (1658-1738). Mazio, 383. Spink 1615. |
 |
Æ 35mm Obv.: CLEM: XI • | PONT: M: A: III • Bust of the pope, r., wearing camauro, mozzetta and stole. |
 |
Rev.: ROBVR • AB • ASTRIS Armed and helmeted female figure with a spear, reclining, with a lion to the left; the heavens opened through clouds . Miselli, p. 35 #39. Mazio, 384. (Mazio restrike) Spink 1612. |
 |
Æ 37mm Obv.: CLEMENS • | • XI • P • M • AN • V • Bust of the pope, r., wearing tiara, and cope. |
 |
1705 |
G. Moroni, Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica 14 (Venezia 1842) 69.
F. Artaud de Montor, Histoire des Souverains Pontifes romains 6 (Paris 1852) 317.
 |
Æ 37mm Obv.: CLEMENS • XI | • P • M • AN • VIIII Bust of the pope, r., wearing tiara, and cope. (beneath bust:) HAMERANVS |
 |
MDCCIX |
1 Kings 8:4 et portaverunt arcam Domini et tabernaculum foederis et omnia vasa sanctuarii quae erant in tabernaculo et ferebant ea sacerdotes et Levitae
 |
AG Obv.: CLEMENS • | • XI • P • M • AN • XII • Bust of the pope, r., wearing camauro, mozzetta and stole. |
 |
Rev.: TV DOMINVS ET MAGISTER • EXEMPLVM DEDI | VOBIS Christ kneeling, washing the feet of the seated Saint Peter. (Text: John 13. 14-15) Mazio, 394. Spink 1644. |
 |
Æ Obv.: CLEMENS XI • P • M • A • XV (beneath bust:) • E • HAMERANVS • F Bust of the pope, r., wearing camauro, mozzetta and stole. |
 |
Rev.: TEMPLO • S • CLEMENTIS • INSTAVRATO View of the Church of S. Clemente, Rome, with atrium, from the south; Dominican monastery to east. St. Clement was the fourth pope of Rome. The ancient foundation (mentioned by St. Jerome in 392) was destroyed in 1084, and rebuilt beginning in 1108 by Pope Paschal II. Clement XI ordered its restoration. The sixth century church survives below the floor of the 12th century church. Engraver: Ermengildo Hamerani (1683-1756) Mazio, 400. Spink 1662. |
 |
AE
|
 |
Rev.:
CORPORE | S • LEONIS • MAGNI | TRANSLATO | DIE • XI • APRILIS | MDCCXI |
Lodovico Sergardi, Ragguaglio della traslazione del corpo di S. Leone Magno (Roma 1715). Gaetano Moroni, Dizionario di erudizione storico ecclesiastica Volume 38 (Venezia 1846) 14.
 |
AG
|
 |
|
F. Artaud de Montor, Histoire des souverains pontifes romains VI (Paris 1851) 326
G. Moroni, Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica 14 (Venezia 1842) 65.
 |
AG
|
 |
BONARVM • ARTIVM • CVLTVI • ET • INCREMENTO (in exergue): INSTIT • SCIENT | • BONON • |
On October 8, 1711, Clement XI approved the statutes for a new Academy of Painters, Sculptors and Architects in Bologna, to be called the Accademia Clementina. In 1711, Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsili of Bologna approached Clement XI Albani with the idea of providing an observatory (Specola) in Bologna where he could house his library and collection of scientific instruments, and which would serve as a center for practical astronomy. This led directly to the launching of the Istituto delle Scienze di Bologna on January 11, 1712, to which project the Pope contributed 2400 scudi. The Pope had benefited in his early education by being enrolled by Christina of Sweden in her Roman Accademia. A building to house the Institute, Observatory and collections was sought, the plans of which were approved by the Pope, but the death of the architect ( G. A. Torri ) and shortage of funds, halted the work, until the Pope was again induced, in 1720, to supply an additional15,000 scudi. This medal commemorates the Pope's generosity and support of this great intellectual project.
See Giuseppe Novaes, Elementi della storia de' Sommi Pontefici Volume 12 (Roma 1822) pages 190-191; Marta Cavazza, Settecento inquieto. Alle origini dell' Istituto delle Scienze di Bologna (Bologna 1990); and "The Bolognese Specola, published on the Internet by the Museo della Specola, Bologna (retrieved: 12/14/2007)
