
Siena
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Occupying a hilltop site in the midst of a vast, undulating landscape, Siena is as much a magnet for contemporary tourism as Florence. However, its proud republican past presents an intriguing contrast with its Medici-dominated northern Tuscan rival, with which it tussled for local supremacy for much of the High Middle Ages. From the twelfth century, profiting from its advantageous position on a major pilgrim route, the Republic of Siena developed into a major European power and remained an important commercial, financial and artistic centre for four centuries.
Jane Stevenson charts the changing fortunes of a city that rose to an astonishingly productive cultural heyday in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, suffered a catastrophic late medieval decline in the aftermath of the Black Death, but transcended the loss of its wider political power to enjoy a prosperous civic afterlife. Siena today enjoys a cherished position as a uniquely well-preserved medieval city, crammed with world-class art and architecture, furnished with appealing and intriguing traditions, and set in a heavenly landscape.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- MAPS
- PREFACE
- 1. GEOGRAPHY AND PREHISTORY
- 2. EARLY CHRISTIAN SIENA
- 3. NEW BEGINNINGS
- 4. SIENA, CITY OF THE VIRGIN
- 5. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTRYSIDE
- 6. THE MAKING OF THE CITY
- 7. THE DUOMO
- THE MARBLE PAVEMENT
- 8. EARLY SIENESE ART
- OTHER ARTS
- 9. THE BLACK DEATH AND AFTER
- ORIGIN LEGENDS
- 10. SIENESE SAINTS AND HERETICS
- 11. PIUS II AND THE RENAISSANCE IN SIENA
- LUXURY TRADES
- PIUS II
- PIENZA
- WOMEN
- 12. PANDOLFO THE MAGNIFICENT AND HIGH RENAISSANCE SIENA
- PANDOLFO PETRUCCI
- RENAISSANCE MEN
- 13. SIENESE ART: THE RENAISSANCE AND AFTER
- 14. THE FALL OF THE REPUBLIC
- 15. MEDICI RULE
- 16. THE PALIO
- 17. THE CITY AND ARCADIA
- ALEXANDER VII
- SCIENTISTS
- 18. A VERY GREAT SIMPLICITY
- 19. SENA VETUS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- NOTES
- Preface
- 1 Geography and Prehistory
- 2 Early Christian Siena
- 3 New Beginnings
- 4 Siena, City of the Virgin
- 5 The Development of the Countryside
- 6 The Making of the City
- 7 The Duomo
- 8 Early Sienese Art
- 9 The Black Death and After
- 10 Sienese Saints and Heretics
- 11 Pius II and the Renaissance in Siena
- 12 Pandolfo the Magnificent and High Renaissance Siena
- 13 Sienese Art: The Renaissance and After
- 14 The Fall of the Republic
- 15 Medici Rule
- 16 The Palio
- 17 The City and Arcadia
- 18 A Very Great Simplicity
- 19 Sena Vetus
- About the Author
- An Invitation from the Publisher
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