Career
Among carved gems the "Strozzi Medusa" bearing a signature "Solon" passed through Sabatini"s collection. Carved gems in his collection were included among those in Paolo Alessandro Maffei"s Gemme antiche (Rome: Domenico de" Rossi), 1708. One of them, a head of Vespasian bears the added inscription LAUR. MED. of Lorenzo de" Medici, which was a habit of Lorenzo"son
A caricature by Pier Leone Ghezzi of Sabbatini and Baron Philipp von Stosch, another renowned antiquary, closely examining engraved gems, is conserved in the Ashmolean museum.
Sabbatini"s portrait is in the library of the Università di Bologna.
