The Story of Siena and San GimignanoGardner, Edmund G.
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The Story of Siena and San Gimignano
Gardner, Edmund G.
Art -- Italy -- Siena; San Gimignano (Italy) -- History; Siena (Italy) -- History
Luigi Pecori, _Storia della Terra di San Gimignano_. Florence,
1853.
Matteo Villani, _Istorie Fiorentine_ (in continuation of those of
his brother Giovanni). In Muratori, _Rerum Italicarum Scriptores_.
Vol. xiv. Milan, 1729; and elsewhere.
_Cronachetta di San Gimignano composta da_ Fra Matteo Ciaccheri
Fiorentino, _l'anno MCCCLV_. Bologna, 1865. Fra Matteo was a native
of San Gimignano; he calls himself a Florentine because, when he
wrote, all his fellow-townsmen had become Florentine citizens.
Gino Capponi, _Storia della Repubblica di Firenze_. Appendix to
vol. i. Florence, 1878.
Ugo Nomi V. Pesciolini, _Le Glorie della Terra di San Gimignano_.
Siena, 1900.
Natale Baldoria, _Monumenti Artistici in San Gimignano_. Article in
the _Archivio Storico dell' Arte_ for 1890. Rome, 1890.
Bernhard Berenson, _The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance_.
Second Edition. New York, 1900.
Alfredo Tognetti, _Guida di San Gimignano_. Florence, 1899.
[Illustration: Map of SIENA.]
GENERAL INDEX
A.
Abati, Bocca degli, Florentine traitor at Montaperti, 15.
Accona, desert of, 315, 316.
Agazzari, Fra Filippo, author of the _Assempri_, 23, 305-311.
Agostino di Giovanni, architect and sculptor (died in 1350),
99, 278, 284, 285.
Agnolo di Tura ("Grasso"), chronicler, his description of the
pestilence, 25, 26; quoted, 127.
Agnolo di Ventura, architect (died in 1348), 99, 278, 284.
_Aggregati, Monte degli_, 75.
Albany, Duke of (John Stuart), 210, 211.
Albertinelli, Mariotto, painter (1474-1515), 124.
Albizzeschi, Bernardino. See Bernardino.
Aldobrandeschi, Counts of Santa Fiora, 7, 14, 15.
Airoldi, Fra Domenico, Abbot of Monte Oliveto, 317, 318, 320.
Alexander III., Pope (Orlando Bandinelli), his pontificate, 5;
consecrates the older Duomo, 6;
frescoes depicting his life, 143, 144;
honoured by modern Siena, 144;
statue of in the Duomo, 160.
---- IV., Pope (Rinaldo Conti), unites the Augustinian hermits
into one order, 305.
---- VI., Pope (Roderigo Borgia), threatens the liberty of Siena, 86;
recalls Cesare, 89;
dies, 90;
patron of Pinturicchio, 171;
portraits of, 174.
---- VII., Pope (Fabio Chigi), character of, 160.
Allegretti, Allegretto di Nanni, diarist, quoted 74, 75;
describes the reconciliation of Noveschi and Popolani in the Duomo, 78, 79;
quoted 129, 130, 157 (note);
describes a festa in the Via del Capitano, 257;
referred to, 267 (note);
his account of the reducing the Monti to one and the presentation
of the keys to the Madonna, 272-274.
Altoviti, Bartolommeo, Florentine captain in San Gimignano, 338.
Alviano, Bartolommeo, condottiere, 91.
Amerighi, Amerigo, plots the liberation of Siena, 224.
---- Marcantonio, ambassador to the Emperor, 219.
Andrea di Vanni, painter (end of Trecento), 107, 206, 207, 208 (note), 296.
Andrea Pisano (1270-1348), sculptor and architect, referred to, 99, 100.
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