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Siena: City of the Virgin
Titus Birckhardt
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Description for Siena: City of the Virgin
Paperback. Through the use of color photographs, maps, and reproductions of original manuscripts, the author invites the reader to walk the streets of a city whose history mirrors the development of Christianity in Europe. He examines the history, culture, and spirituality of the Italian city of Siena, the City of the Virgin. Num Pages: 144 pages, full colour illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBG; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 216 x 9. Weight in Grams: 596.
Siena - a UNESCO World Heritage site - was founded by Senius, son of Remus (the legendary co-founder of Rome) and is the home of St. Bernardino and St. Catherine. Renowned for its architectural splendour and its religious devotion, especially to the Holy Virgin Mary, Siena was dubbed by its mediaeval contemporaries 'The City of the Virgin'. Through its beautifully illustrated pages, replete with colour photographs, maps, illustrations and reproductions of original manuscripts dating from as early as the thirteenth century, Titus Burckhardt's masterpiece, SIENA: CITY OF THE VIRGIN, traces the spiritual, historical and artistic development ... Read more
Siena - a UNESCO World Heritage site - was founded by Senius, son of Remus (the legendary co-founder of Rome) and is the home of St. Bernardino and St. Catherine. Renowned for its architectural splendour and its religious devotion, especially to the Holy Virgin Mary, Siena was dubbed by its mediaeval contemporaries 'The City of the Virgin'. Through its beautifully illustrated pages, replete with colour photographs, maps, illustrations and reproductions of original manuscripts dating from as early as the thirteenth century, Titus Burckhardt's masterpiece, SIENA: CITY OF THE VIRGIN, traces the spiritual, historical and artistic development ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
World Wisdom Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781933316598
SKU
V9781933316598
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Ref
99-15
About Titus Birckhardt
Titus Burckhardt (1908-1984) was one of the leading perennialist writers of the 20th century. Burckhardt wrote on pure metaphysics, on tradition and modern science, on sacred art, on history and political science and on various other aspects of traditional civilisations. Burckhardt was, also, a translator, an editor and publisher and a respected consultant on restoring traditional cities to their former ... Read more
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