I find the Monument to John Hawkwood to be one of the most interesting of it's kind, even though really it's a monument to not finishing a job.
Had the Florentines built the marble tomb, it would have been just another statue. As it is, it's an interesting painting of what it would have looked like if they'd done it. This can cause you to look up Hawkwood (seriously, is that not a name right out of a Michael Moorcock book or what?) and learn about his "Local boy makes good" story. Of course, there is a given value for "good" since he did commit the sort of atrocities that would make him public enemy #1 these days.
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