Tuesday, June 9, 2009

from Remarks on several parts of Europe, relating chiefly to their... by John Durant Breval (1680?-1738), 1738

Piacenza afforded my Enquiries nothing new, more than an old Milliary of Constantine the Great, which ftands in one of the Streets; and a noble Reprefentation of the famous Siege of Antwerp, in baf-relief upon the Pedeftal of Duke Alexander's Equeftrian Statue in the Market-place. The Town-houfe, a ftately old Building, was the ancient Palace of the Landi's, Lords of this City, long before it was beftow'd upon the Farneses.

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