SienaSiena by Jane Stevenson is an authoritative and richly illustrated history that affectionately celebrates Siena, one of the best loved and most visited cities in Italy. Occupying a hilltop site amidst a vast, undulating landscape, Siena attracts contemporary tourists as much as Florence. However, its proud republican past presents an intriguing contrast to its Medici dominated northern Tuscan rival, with which it vied for local supremacy during much