text: The entrance to the important Piazza del Santo south of the city center is guarded by Donatello 's grand statue of Gattamelata , the 15th-century Venetian condottiere Erasmo da Narni , perfect ideal of a Renaissance hero , whose honeyed cat nickname still mystifies historians .
  
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  There is a statue of Gattamelata in from of the Piazza del Santo .