Jane Stevenson: Siena: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval City [2022] hardback ZSCFI fresh-faced and idealistic

fresh-faced and idealistic

Two brothers growing up in the shadows of the Ballymun flats are on very different paths

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Jane Stevenson: Siena: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval City [2022] hardback ZSCFI fresh-faced and idealisticAn authoritative, richly illustrated history, and affectionate celebration, of Siena, one of the best loved and most visited cities in Italy. Occupying a hilltop site in the midst of a vast, undulating landscape, Siena is as much a magnet for contemporary tourism as Florence. However, its proud republican past presents an intriguing contrast with its Medici dominated northern Tuscan rival, with which it tussled for local supremacy for much of the High