The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Innocent X, Pope (6 May 1574 - 7 Jan 1655)

Alias Giovanni Battista Pamphilj (Alias)

Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocent_X Relevant locations: No Role Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi
References in Documents:
Bargrave's catalogue: Rara, Antiqua, et Numismata Bargraviana (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16a)

(19). A piece of a kind of jasper stone, almost like a heart, polished, being a piece of that famous obelisk that now standeth in the chiefest place of Rome, called Piazza Navona, olim Circus Agonalis, set up there on a most magnificent fabrick, like a rock, out of which floweth 4 fountains, very large, signifying by the figures of colossean statues of the 4 rivers of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, by the hand of Cavalier Bernino, that famous architect, my neighbour and friendly acquaintance, -- Pope Innocent the 10th being at that vast expense.

18th-c coin catalogue (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16c) 1. a silver Medal of Pope Innocent 10th. iIt is in the Lesser Cabinet Drawer 5, in Line 5, from the Bottom. Medel 3d from the left
A memo dated 28 April 1658 (Canterbury Cathedral loose papers) A siluer meddal of Pope Innocent 10th and one of Alexandr Alexander vii.
Sale Catalogue of Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1764) 89 Innocent X. Clement X. Clement XI. in Silver, Clement XI. Clement X. Alexander VII. Gregory XIII. and Innocent XII. in Copper, the last gilt 8