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Siena, City of the Virgin
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Siena, City of the Virgin: Illustrated
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Foreword By William Stoddart
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Book Size: 8.5 x 11
# of Pages: 144
This beautifully illustrated book examines the history, culture, and spirituality of the Italian city of Siena, the "City of the Virgin." Home of St. Catherine and St. Bernardino, Siena was equally renowned for its architectural beauty and its religious devotion. Through the use of color photographs, maps, and reproductions of original manuscripts, Burckhardt invites the reader to walk the streets of a city whose history mirrors the development of Christianity in Europe.
Silver Midwest Book Award for "Political Science/History"
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Detailed Description of Siena, City of the Virgin
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 splendor and its religious devotion, especially to the Holy Virgin Mary, Siena was dubbed by its medieval contemporaries "The City of the Virgin."
Through its beautifully illustrated pages, replete with color 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 of one of the most important cities in the medieval world, in whose destiny the "spiritual development of the Christian Western world from the Middle Ages up to the present is exemplified…." Out of print for decades, this new edition has been painstakingly reproduced for a new generation to enjoy.
Titus Burckhardt (1908-1984) was one of the leading perennialist writers of the twentieth century. His writings showed remarkable scope. 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 civilizations. Burckhardt was also a translator (from Arabic into French), an editor and publisher, and a respected consultant on restoring traditional cities to their former beautiful states. World Wisdom has published the following books by Burckhardt:
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Sacred Art in East and West
The Essential Titus Burckhardt
The Foundations of Christian Art: Illustrated
Introduction to Sufi Doctrine
Art of Islam, Language and Meaning: Commemorative Edition
Foundations of Oriental Art & Symbolism
Chartres and the Birth of the Cathedral (revised)
In addition, numerous Titus Burckhardt essays have appeared in various World Wisdom anthologies. Our free online Library has many essays and excerpts from Burckhardt's writings.
William Stoddart
William Stoddart is a perennialist author, editor, and translator who has been active in advancing the understanding of the writings of Frithjof Schuon, Titus Burckhardt, and others, for many years. Dr. Stoddart's most recent publication with World Wisdom are An Illustrated Outline of Buddhism: The Essentials of Buddhist Spirituality, What Does Islam Mean in Today's World?, and Outline of Sufism: The Essentials of Islamic Spirituality. A compilation of his writings, Remembering in a World of Forgetting, was edited by M. Soares de Azevedo and A. Vasconcellos Queiroz. Stoddart also edited The Essential Titus Burckhardt, and is perhaps the greatest authority on the work of this great Swiss traditionalist. Dr. Stoddart's other contributions in World Wisdom books include:
The Introduction in Frithjof Schuon: Messenger of the Perennial Philosophy
The Foreword in Men of a Single Book
The Foreword in Ye Shall Know the Truth: Christianity and the Perennial Philosophy
The Foreword in Siena, City of the Virgin: Illustrated
The Preface and Introduction in The Essential Titus Burckhardt: Reflections on Sacred Faiths, Art, and Civilizations
The Introduction in Adastra & Stelle Maris: Poems by Frithjof Schuon
The essay "The Role of Culture in Education" in Every Branch in Me: Essays on the Meaning of Man
The essay "Aspects of Islamic Esoterism" in Sufism: Love and Wisdom
The essay "Mysticism" in The Underlying Religion: An Introduction to the Perennial Philosophy
Reviews of Siena, City of the Virgin
"This pleasant, unpretentious book is illustrated by a number of excellent color photographs of the city of Siena and by reproductions of Sienese paintings and sculptures. In those who have visited Siena … [they] will evoke vivid memories of the town…. The text, which is also well conceived, consists in the main of translations from contemporary sources threaded together to form a political and spiritual history."
"Dr. Burckhardt's volume is an historical survey, illustrated pleasantly, with pictures of Siena itself, with lovely surrounding landscapes and associated works of art…. On the historical side, Dr. Burckhardt's monograph is full of interesting detail."
"This work provides a very pleasant, and often beautifully illustrated, guide and introduction to the history of medieval politics and art in one of Italy's most charming cities."
—Teresa Hankey, University of London, in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Table of Contents for Siena, City of the Virgin
Foreword (by William Stoddart)
Sena ventus civitas Virginis
'Il Buon Governo'
The City of the Soul
Civitas Veneris
The Holy Monogram
The Tyrants
The Palio
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