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Enclosed between the city walls, the zecca (the mint) with the adjacent houses, and the Viale del Museo, lie the Vatican Gardens, or
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Business took him to Flanders, on three occasions; like a good Florentine he took part in politics, was priore several times, and served as an official of the zecca, or mint, where he introduced some wise changes.
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Maestro delle stampe della zecca, i. e., the artist who made the dies.
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Maestro delle stampe della zecca, i. e., the artist who made the dies.
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Descending to prelates, he uses similar language (p. 64): 'non possa mai pervenire ad alcun grado di prelatura se non col favore del maestro della zecca, e quelle conviensela comprare all' incanto come si fa dei cavalli in fiera. '
Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots
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[Footnote 1: In connection with the Pisans 'insulting intention by their term of Arabs, remember that the Venetian' zecca, '(mint) came from the Arabic' sehk, 'the steel die used in coinage.]
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'Maestro delle stampe della zecca, i. e.,' the artist who made the dies.
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(ducat); in Venice it was also called zecchino (sequin) from la zecca, "the mint".
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(Rome, 1744); CAPOBIANCHI, Origine della zecca del Senato romano nel secolo XII (Camerino.
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