Tyranny, with all the vices for his council and with Terror for prime minister, presides over the ill-governed town.

The burghers of the happy commune follow trade or pleasure, as they list; a beautiful winged genius, inscribed "Securitas," floats above their citadel.

It should be added that in both these pictures the architecture is the same; for the painter has designed to teach how different may be the state of one and the same city according to its form of government.
Such then were the vivid images whereby Ambrogio Lorenzetti expressed the mediaeval curse of discord, and the ideal of a righteous rule.

It is only necessary to read the "Diario Sanese" of Allegretto Allegretti in order to see that he drew no fancy picture.

The torchlight procession of burghers swearing amity by couples in the cathedral there described, receives exact pictorial illustration in the fresco of the Sala della Pace[148].