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"description": "This medal is part of a series of four oval medals that celebrated Pope Paul II as the \u201cFounder of Italian Peace.\u201d Though his renewal of the Italian League in 1468, Paul aspired to maintain peace among the independent Italian states and evade foreign incursion. In previous years, infighting between Florence, Venice, Ferrara, Milan, Naples, and Bologna had left the peninsula vulnerable to Turkish invasion.",
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"citation": "Winter, Patrick M. de. \u201cRecent Accessions of Italian Renaissance Decorative Arts, Part I: Incorporating Notes on the Sculptor Severo Da Ravenna.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 3 (March 1986): 74\u2013138.",
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"citation": "Bergman, Robert P., Diane DeGrazia, and Stephen N. Fliegel. Vatican Treasures: Early Christian, Renaissance, and Baroque Art from the Papal Collections: An Exhibition in Honor of the Sesquicentenary of the Diocese of Cleveland. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.",
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