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THE
S T O R Y   O F   S I E N A
AND
SAN GIMIGNANO


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THE
S T O R Y   O F   S I E N A
AND
SAN   GIMIGNANO

BY
EDMUND   G.   GARDNER

ILLUSTRATED BY
HELEN   M.   JAMES

AND MANY REPRODUCTIONS
FROM THE WORKS OF

PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS



1902
LONDON: J. M. DENT & CO.
ALDINE HOUSE, W.C.

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To

THE MEMORY

OF

HELEN M. JAMES

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PREFACE

THIS present volume is intended to provide a popular history of thegreat Republic of Siena, in such a form that it can also serve as aguide-book to that most fascinating of Tuscan cities and itsneighbourhood. San Gimignano has been included, because no visitor toSiena leaves the “fair town called of the Fair Towers” unvisited; I havemade special reference to it in the title of the book, to lay stressupon the point that, although for administrative purposes San Gimignanois included in the province (and in the circondario) of Siena, itshistory is practically distinct from that of Siena and is moreintimately connected with the story of Florence.

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