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 they make ignorant people believe (for sport) to have been the Lance of Orlando Furioso.

2. Near the Domo, in the Piazza, stands a Brazen Statue, which some affirm to be the Statue of Constantine the Great? others, more probably, of Antoninus Pius. It was brought from Ravenna hither by Victory; and it had like to have been carried back again to Ravenna by Victory. For Lotrech the French General in the taking of this Town, having granted this Statue to a Souldier of Ravenna (who served under him, and who having mounted the Breach first, asked nothing for his recompence but that Statue, taken anciently from his Native Town) Yet afterwards moved with the generosity of the Townsmen (who having left all things else with some patience, to the prey of the Souldiers, burst into Tears, when they heard that this Statue was to be taken from them) Lotrech changed his guift to the Souldier, and left the Citizens of Pavia their dear Statue.