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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
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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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.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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Maestro delle stampe della zecca, i. e., the artist who made the dies.
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 1910
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Maestro delle stampe della zecca, i. e., the artist who made the dies.
XLV 1909
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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 John Addington Symonds 1866
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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.]
Val d'Arno John Ruskin 1859
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'Maestro delle stampe della zecca, i. e.,' the artist who made the dies.
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Benvenuto Cellini 1535
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(ducat); in Venice it was also called zecchino (sequin) from la zecca, "the mint".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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(Rome, 1744); CAPOBIANCHI, Origine della zecca del Senato romano nel secolo XII (Camerino.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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