'Turn your eyes to behold her': architecture and civic ideology in fourteenth-century SienaThe imperial visit of Sigismund of Luxemburg: the urban experience of ritual -- Between the imperial visits: urban renewal and domestic architecture -- Pius II Piccolomini and architectural patronage in Siena: papap power and family identity -- 'La citta magnificata': urban magnificence and civic image -- The word on the street: the Strada Roman and its users -- Rewriting the city's pasts in stone: humanists, antiquatians and the built fabric -- Palaces, politics and history: the architecture of the Novesco Oligarchy -- The stratified city: Oligarchy and urban form -- Conclusion: the prince and the city: Pandolfo Petrucci, 'Il Magnifico'
'Turn your eyes to behold her': architecture and civic ideology in fourteenth-century Siena -- The imperial visit of Sigismund of Luxemburg: the urban experience of ritual -- Between the imperial visits: urban renewal and domestic architecture -- Pius II Piccolomini and architectural patronage in Siena: papap power and family identity -- 'La citta magnificata': urban magnificence and civic image -- The word on the street: the Strada Roman and its users -- Rewriting the city's pasts in stone: humanists, antiquatians and the built fabric -- Palaces, politics and history: the architecture of the Novesco Oligarchy -- The stratified city: Oligarchy and urban form -- Conclusion: the prince and the city: Pandolfo Petrucci, 'Il Magnifico'