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The story of Siena and San Gimignano (1902)

Gardner, Edmund Garratt, 1869-1935 · London : J.M. Dent & co. · leaf 308

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mocratic city than Siena, theywould have been Magnificence. Incidentally, we may observe(a point frequently missed by English writers, especially offiction dealing with the Italian Renaissance) that Magnificencewas a much less pretentious title at the end of the Quattro-cento than it sounds to us… … Via delta Fonte The Story of Siena within and without, was for the most part carved byLorenzo di Mariano. This palace now contains theArchivio di Stato of Siena ; to do justice to its multifoldinterest, a book would be required larger than thepresent volume. In the Sala della Mostra a numberof…

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