Contents

1. Cover
2. Dedication
3. Title Page
4. Copyright
5. Foreword by Patrick J. Geary
6. Acknowledgements
7. Plate
8. Prologue: The site of an ancient urgency
9. 1 ‘I thought of these images, painted for you’
   1. Notes
10. 2 Nachleben: the watchful shadows
    1. Notes
11. 3 The Nine
    1. Notes
12. 4 Ambrogio Lorenzetti, famosissimo e singularissimo maestro
    1. Notes
13. 5 On each side: allegory, realism, resemblances
    1. Notes
14. 6 Esto visibile parlare: the walls speak to us
    1. Notes
15. 7 Guernica in the lands of Siena
    1. Notes
16. 8 The seductions of tyranny (what the image conceals)
    1. Notes
17. 9 Concord with its cords
    1. Notes
18. 10 With the common good as lord
    1. Notes
19. 11 What Peace sees: narratives of spaces and talking bodies
    1. Notes
20. 12 Well, now you can dance
    1. Notes
21. Epilogue: Vanishing point
22. Appendices
    1. The square of the campo and the Palazzo Pubblico in its urban environment
    2. Arrangement of the rooms on the first floor of the Palazzo Pubblico
    3. The fresco of the Sala della Pace: silhouettes, inscriptions, identifications
    4. Inscriptions in the vernacular: transcription, edition and translation
    5. Notes
23. Published sources
24. Bibliography
25. Picture credits
    1. Illustrated section
    2. Appendices
26. Index
27. End User License Agreement

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