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The story of Siena and San Gimignano (1902)

Gardner, Edmund Garratt, 1869-1935 · London : J.M. Dent & co. · leaf 130

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rretto, made famousin our own days by the eloquent enthusiasm of Ruskin.His native city now began to recognise his genius. In1409 he was commissioned to make the famous fountainof the Piazzo del Campo, upon which he worked atintervals between 1412 and I419—going off to do otherwork at Lucca, and… … The Sculptors and Painters of Siena and in the following year to cast two bronze scenes, stone,for the same. But here again he undertook things else-where—in Bologna, this time—and the Signoria had tocompel him to finish what he had begun, which he didin 1434. In the meanwhile, he had accomplished…

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