A few days after the victory, the French General responsible for maintaining order in Lombardy discovered that all the farmers on the noblemen's estates, all the old wives in the villages, so far from still thinking of this astonishing victory at Marengo, which had altered the destinies of Italy and recaptured thirteen fortified positions in a single day, had their minds occupied only by a prophecy of San Giovila, the principal Patron Saint of Brescia.
gogotik joana zitzaiela jadanik Marengoko garaipen harrigarri hura nobleen zerbitzuko baserritar guztiei eta landaldeko emakume urtetsu guztiei, nahiz gudu hari esker aldatu zen Italiaren patua eta birkonkistatu ziren hamahiru gotorleku egun bakar batean; haren ordez, profezia bat zebilkien denei gogoan, Bresciako zaindari nagusi Giovita santuak egina.