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The story of Siena and San Gimignano (1902)

Gardner, Edmund Garratt, 1869-1935 · London : J.M. Dent & co. · leaf 346

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of the city, after the terms ofthe capitulation had been decided in Florence. Instead of turning up at the chapel to go to Belcaro,we turn down to the right and then again down throughthe flowery lanes to the left, where huge white or greyoxen drawing wains block the way at intervals, and… … THE CORONATION OF THE MADONNA(Andrea della Robbla. Osservanza, Siena) Alinari, Florence Lecceto the forest ground, over the scantier trees to the left,rises, solitary and austere, the convent of the Augustinianhermits, San Salvatore di Lecceto: a blessed place,writes Ambrogio Landucci, in which the…

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