[Footnote 49: Matthew Paris thus ends his account: Caput
vero ipsius Branca leonis in vase pretioso super marmoream
columnam collocatum, in signum sui valoris et probitatis,
quasi reliquias, superstitiose nimis et pompose sustulerunt.
Fuerat enim superborum potentum et malefactorum urbis
malleus et extirpator, et populi protector et defensor
veritatis et justitiae imitator et amator, (p. 840.) A
biographer of Innocent IV. (Muratori, Script. tom. iii. P.
i. p. 591, 592) draws a less favorable portrait of this
Ghibeline senator.]