Table of Contents

The "Triumph of Death" frescoes in the Pisan Camposanto and Dominican preaching; Frescoes with inscriptions or the history of a long misfortune; The shifting parameters of vernacular preaching; The authority of the preacher and the model of the desert; Words and images: modes of reception; Voices speaking in the vernacular and the quality of looking; The present and the eternal: between exemplum and figura; Allegories and memory images: the Colloquio spirituale and the Tower of Knowledge cycle: The border guards; The Colloguio spirituale: the characters in the staging of the dialogue; "Di virtuose immagine ornandoti dentro": the construction of allegorical images; Memory images; Images to look at and read; The Tower of Knowledge cycle; The Colloquio spirituale: a repertoire of images; Trees and other schemas: some examples of their use: The Pisan convent of St Catherine and Domenico Cavalca; Petrarch and the tree of virtue; Ramon Lull and the history of a shipwreck; To remember the future: the Liber figurarum by Joachim of Fiore; Jacopone of Todi: poetry to be seen; Saint Bernardino of Siena: Images for everyone: Otranto and Averara; Bernardino of Siena: techniques for a ritual of appeasement; The hidden map; Saint Francis and the cherubim; "As you see it portrayed": the sermon and the city's art; "Consider and contemplate, devoted soul"; The donkey, the crow; and the Ship of Fools; Mistaken images, or the impossible collaboration; "Come el briaco che si mangia el vino": the panel bearing the name of Jesus; Images written upon the body.