Description
Book SynopsisA practical guide for tourists and armchair travelers. It features Siena's artistic and architectural past, hidden behind centuries of painting and rebuilding. It takes the reader on a quest of discovery through the well- and not-so-well-traveled roads and alleys of a town both medieval and modern.
Trade Review"Siena is indeed a city of secrets; it's always been too secretive for me, despite (or because of) its breathtakingly beautiful surfaces. Tylus manages wonderfully to unfold mysteries while keeping the secrets alive and alluring. The book is a marvelous mixture of erudition and personal reminiscence. Her literary and historical mastery is absolute, but she is also a delightful companion enabling us to travel the city as it exists now and the city with centuries of its history as though intact before our gaze. Read City of Secrets and see Siena through the eyes of a particularly gifted observer who is also a gifted writer." -Leonard Barkan, Princeton University
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction / City of Secrets 1 Terra and Acqua 2 Pilgrims 3 Money 4 Neighborhoods 5 Saints Afterwords Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
