This statue has been in Piazza San Francesco in front of the church since 1864, when one of Fossombroni's  heirs had it made and gave it to the local administration as a present.
Vittorio Fossombroni was born in Arezzo in 1754 and died in Firenze in 1844. He graduated in engineering from the university of Pisa and was both a scientist and a politician. In fact he worked as an engineer for the Grand Duke of Tuscany but had a relevant role in the political life of the time too: he was prime minister for many years. He did quite many works in town but he is mainly famous for the drainage of the marshy Valdichiana, one of the four vallies around Arezzo.