The Story of Siena and San Gimignano (Classic Reprint)

Type

Book

Authors

Edmund Garratt Gardner

ISBN 10

1330652568

ISBN 13

9781330652565

Tags

Painting, Siena, San Gimignano, Art, Italy), Civil History, Guide book, Travel guide, Sculptures, Architecture

Description

Excerpt from The Story ofThis 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

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