Abstract:
Architecture and civic ideology in fourteenth-century Siena -- Imperial visit of Sigismund of Luxemburg: the urban experience of ritual (1432-1453) -- Urban renewal and domestic architecture between the imperial visits of Sigismund I (1432) and Frederick III (1453) -- Pius II Piccolomini and architectural patronage in Siena -- 'La città magnificata': urban magnificence and civic image -- Word on the street: the strada romana and its users (c. 1460-1480) -- Rewriting the city's pasts in stone: humanists, antiquarians and the built fabric -- Palaces, politics and history: the architecture of the Novesco oligarchy -- Stratified city: oligarchy and urban form.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-292) and index.HOLLIS no. 011357541
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