The Story of Siena and San Gimignano. Edmund G. Gardner
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Edmund G. Gardner
The Story of Siena and San Gimignano
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066234157
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I The Republic of Siena
CHAPTER II Saint Catherine of Siena
CHAPTER III The People and the Petrucci
CHAPTER IV The Sculptors and Painters of Siena
CHAPTER V The Campo of Siena and the Palace of the Commune
CHAPTER VI The Duomo and the Baptistery
CHAPTER VII In the Footsteps of St Catherine
CHAPTER VIII The Last Days of the Republic
CHAPTER IX Through the City of the Virgin
CHAPTER X Some Famous Convents and Monasteries
CHAPTER XII In the Town of the Beautiful Towers
PREFACE
THIS present volume is intended to provide a popular history of the great Republic of Siena, in such a form that it can also serve as a guide-book to that most fascinating of Tuscan cities and its neighbourhood. San Gimignano has been included, because no visitor to Siena leaves the “fair town called of the Fair Towers” unvisited; I have made special reference to it in the title of the book, to lay stress upon the point that, although for administrative purposes San Gimignano is included in the province (and in the circondario) of Siena, its history is practically distinct from that of Siena and is more intimately connected with the story of Florence.
The appended list of books and authorities, needless to say, is not a complete bibliography, nor even a catalogue of those quoted in the course of this work. It only represents some of those that my readers will find most useful and helpful, or that will supply further information upon many topics which the limits of this series of Mediaeval Towns have compelled me to treat somewhat cursorily and scantily.
The lamented death of Miss Helen M. James deprived us of her assistance in the illustration of the last three chapters, more especially of the two dealing with San Gimignano. Her work has been at the service of this series from the beginning; but it is, perhaps, especially those who have had the privilege of knowing her, and who have had the opportunity of appreciating her character and her personality, that will realise the greatness of this loss. My friend and publisher, Mr. J. M. Dent, associates himself with me in dedicating this volume to her memory.
E. G. G.
October 1902.
ILLUSTRATIONS
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| * The Madonna with Saints (Neroccio di Bartolommeo Landi). Photogravure | Frontispiece |
| * Siena from behind San Domenico | 3 |
| * La Castel Vecchio, the oldest part of Siena | 8 |
| * On the Battlefield of Montaperti | facing 17 |
| * A street in Siena | 24 |
| * La Croce del Travaglio | 35 |
| * La Lupa | 42 |
| * St. Catherine of Siena (Andrea di Vanni) | facing 47 |
| * Letter from St. Catherine to Stefano Maconi |
facing 56
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