Funeral monument of Francesco Spinola

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Sepulcrum Magnifici Viri Domini Francisci Spinulae
Qui decessit finarii anno Domini MCCCXLII die IX Febbruarii

SI GENUS ILLUSTREM CLARUM SI REDDERE VIRTUS
ET MERITA IN PATRIM VEL BENEFACTA QUEUNT
EEQUIS ERIT QUI NON MERITOCONCEDERE POSSIT
SPINULA FRANCISCELAUDIBISINDE TUIS
QUAS OLIM DURISCAIETA EREPTA PERICLIS
TESTANTUR PRIDEM CLASSIS ET IMPERIUM
URBS ADMIRATI INSIGNEM TE VIDIT HONORE
HEC TUA POST LUXIT FATA DOLORE GRAVI

The date of the death of Francesco Spinola, 9th of February 1442, is the only useful reference to date the funeral monument of the valiant captain, originally walled in the main chapel of the church of S. Domenico in Genoa. It is an unusual complex in which a second century Roman sarcophagus with a Dionysian Corteges and a large high relief with the equestrian portrait of Spinola under a field pavilion (Toesca, 1908; Müller, 2002; Beuing, 2010) coexist. This last image, entirely foreign to the Ligurian funeral tradition, is undoubtedly (and significantly) exemplified on Venetian prototypes.

Image courtesy of the National Gallery Palazzo Spinola di Pellicceria, Piazza Pellicceria 1 – Genoa
For any further information on this, Aldo Galli,Il monumento a Francesco Spinola e i suoi autori, in “I monumenti Spinola” by Farida Simonetti and Gianluca Zanelli, 2018 Sagep Editori
https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/filippo-solari_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/