Jane Stevenson: Siena: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval City [2022] hardback ZSCFI Jamel Brinkley

Jamel Brinkley

Two brothers growing up in the shadows of the Ballymun flats are on very different paths

all that remained of his bold move was a trail of destruction

27 years later

Jane Stevenson: Siena: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval City [2022] hardback ZSCFI Jamel BrinkleyAn authoritative, richly illustrated history, and affectionate celebration, of Siena, one of the best loved and most visited cities in Italy. Occupying a hilltop site in the midst of a vast, undulating landscape, Siena is as much a magnet for contemporary tourism as Florence. However, its proud republican past presents an intriguing contrast with its Medici dominated northern Tuscan rival, with which it tussled for local supremacy for much of the High