Italy. Isotta degli Atti, 1432/3-1474, mistress [1446] then wife [1456] of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta. Bronze medal undated but 1446 (Bronze, 42.11 mm, 35.13 g), by Matteo di Andrea de’ Pasti. D ISOTTAE ARIMINENSI Bust right, her hair in a high frame, tied at the nape of the neck, falling into two tails and a jewel atop forehead. Rev. ELEGIAE Closed book. Armand I, 22/23. Hill 1930, 188. Kress 64. An Extremely Fine late old cast, lustrous leather-coloured patina. Matteo di Andrea de’ Pasti (active from 1441- died 1467/8) was a famous sculptor, architect and illuminator who worked in Venice in 1441and successively in Verona and Rimini. Sigismondo Malatesta commissioned many works to the master among which the reconstruction of the Rimini cathedral, commonly known as Tempio Malatestiano, a gorgeous exemple of the XV century’s Italian art. Sigismondo Malatesta and his mistress Isotta are the subject of the greater part of de’ Pasti’s work.