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Acknowledgments Preface: The site of an ancient urgency 1. ‘I thought of these images, painted for you’ 2. Nachleben. The watchful shadows 3. The Nine 4. Ambrogio Lorenzetti, famosissimo e singularissimo maestro 5. On each side: allegory, realism, resemblances 6. Esto visibile parlare: the walls speak to us 7. Guernica in the lands of Siena 8. The seductions of tyranny (what the image conceals) 9. Concord with its cords 10. With the common good as lord 11. What peace sees: narratives of spaces and talking bodies 12. Well, now you can dance Epilogue: Vanishing point Appendices The fresco of the Dala della Pace: silhouettes, inscriptions, identifications Inscriptions in the vernacular: transcription, edition and translation Notes Published sources Bibliography Picture credits Index