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The figures found here are: Antonio Diedo, Antenore, Azzo II d'Este, Trasea Peto, Torquato Tasso, Pietro D'Abano, Giovanni Francesco Mussato, Pagano Della Torre, Lucio Arunzio Stella, Bernardo Nani, Vettor Pisani, Lodovico Sambonifacio, Antonio Michiel, Antonio Barbarigo, Domenico Lazzarini, Taddeo Pepoli, Marco Mantova Benavides, Andrea Mantegna, Papa Paolo II (Pietro Barbo), Papa Eugenio IV (Gabriele Condulmer), Bernardino Trevisan, Antonio Da Rio, Andrea Da Recanati, Ludovico Ariosto, Albertino Mussato, Giuseppe Tartini (eFrancescantonio Vallotti), Giovanni Maria Memmo, Michele Morosini, Melchiorre Cesarotti, Francesco Petrarca, Galileo Galilei, Alessandro Orsato, Alteniero Degli Azzoni, Sicco Polentone, Antonio Zacco, Cesare Piovene, Maffeo Memmo, Andrea Navagero, Andrea Memmo, Piedistallo vuoto, Zambono Dotto De' Dauli, Sperone Speroni, Titus Livius, Gerolamo Savorgnan, Fortunio Liceti, Lodovico Buzzuccarini, Giovanni Poleni, Guglielmo Malaspina degli Obizzi, Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio, Antonio Schinella de' Conti, Jacopino De' Rossi, Gustavo Adamo Baner, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Matteo De' Ragnina, Hiob Ludolf, Stefano Gallini, Filippo Salviati, Uberto Pallavicino, Papa Alessandro VIII (Pietro Ottoboni), Papa Clemente XIII (Carlo Rezzonico), Antonio Canova (con il procuratore Antonio Capello), Francesco Luigi Fanzago, Francesco Pisani, Giulio Pontedera, Nicolò Tron, Francesco Guicciardini, Jacopo Menochio, John III Sobieski, Stephen Báthory, Pietro Danieletti (con Gianbattista Morgagni), Rainiero Vasco, Francesco Morosini detto il Peloponnesiaco, Gerolamo Liorsi, Antonio Savonarola, Marino Cavalli, Andrea Briosco (con Gaspara Stampa), Albertino Papafava, Michele Savonarola and Piedistallo vuoto.