Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, 1348
[ILLUSTRATION]. The Ambrogio Lorenzetti frescoes at Sienna (Palazzo Publico). 

[1] Good government: equal justice, or the rule of law; [2] Good government: peace & prosperity in the city; [3] Peace, prosperity and SECURITY in the country side. [4] Tyranny: justice bound and gagged; [5] Tyranny: destruction inside the city; [6] Tyranny: the countryside.

References. Chiara Frugoni: "Gli affreschi nel Palazzo Pubblico di Siena", in her book Pietro e Ambrogio Lorenz1etti (Milan: Scala, 1988); Hans-Jürgen Wagener: "Good governance, welfare, and transformation", The European Journal of Comparative Economics, junio 2004; Quentin Skinner: "Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Buon Governo frescoes: two old questions, two new answers", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, LXII, 1999.

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