[Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 by John Addington Symonds]@TWC D-Link bookRenaissance in Italy Vol. 3 CHAPTER IV 56/59
_L'Art Chretien_, vol.i.p.
57. [148] See Muratori, vol.xxiii., or the passage translated by me in Vol. I., _Age of the Despots_, p.
480. [149] His "Madonna" in S.Domenico is dated 1221.
For a full discussion of Guido da Siena's date, see Crowe and Cavalcaselle, vol.i.
pp. 180-185. [150] On their coins the Sienese struck this legend: "Sena vetus Civitas Virginis." It will be remembered how the Florentines, two centuries and a half later, dedicated their city to Christ as king. [151] Date of birth unknown; date of death, about 1320. [152] He is better known as Simone Memmi, a name given to him by a mistake of Vasari's.
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