Concord herself, being less the virtue of the government than of the governed, is seated on a line with the burghers in a place apart beneath the throne of Civil Justice, who is allegorised as the dispenser of rewards and punishments, as well as controller of the armed force and the purse of the community.

The whole of this elaborate allegory suffers by the language of description.

Those who have seen it, and who are familiar with Sienese chronicles, feel that, artistically laboured as the painter's work may be, every figure had a passionate and intense meaning for him[146].

His picture is the epitome of government conducted by a sovereign people.

Nor can we fail to be struck with the beauty of some details.