Sotto il duomo di Siena. Scoperte archeologiche, architettoniche e figurative, a cura di Roberto Guerrini, con la collaborazione di Max Seidel, Cinisello Balsamo (Silvana editoriale), 2003.

The publication of this book coincided with the completion of the operations of emptying the room beneath the Cathedral of Siena. The uniqueness of the discoveries and the complexity of the operations performed, are indeed the subject of the book.

Le sculture del Duomo di Siena, a cura di Mario Lorenzoni, coordinamento di Marilena Caciorgna, Cinisello Balsamo (Milano), Silvana Editoriale, 2009, 215 pp.

Numerous studies have been dedicated to the Cathedral of Siena and, in particular, to the sculptures it contains, masterpieces of Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque art: the sacred temple holds works by artists like Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, Donatello, Michelangelo, Beccafumi, and Bernini to name the most famous, but also by many other sculptors and stone masters of every epoch.

La Facciata del Duomo di Siena. Iconografia, stile, indagini storiche e scientifiche, a cura e con un'introduzione di Mario Lorenzoni, Cinisello Balsamo (Milano), Silvana Editoriale, 2007, 198 pp.

Conducted between July 2005 and December 2006 under the supervision of the Soprintendenza ai Beni Architettonici di Siena and the Opera della Metropolitana, the restoration of the facade proved to be an important opportunity to clear up several issues tied to the construction of the sacred building, and to conduct a deep investigation into its impressive elevation. In light of the most recent updates, the book seeks to provide a thorough reading of the facade of the Cathedral of Siena with the contribution of well-known scholars and art historians: from its architectural layout to the inscriptions it contains, from the sculptures that adorn it to the mosaics, and the history of the materials employed.

Le pitture del Duomo di Siena, a cura di Mario Lorenzoni, Cinisello Balsamo (Milano), Silvana Editoriale, 2008, 216 pp.

Part of a series of publications dedicated to the Cathedral of Siena, one of the most illustrious in Europe for its structure, as well as for the works it contains, the book is presented to the reader as a sort of catalogue of the frescoes and paintings that alternate inside the sacred temple, constituting its precious decoration. Accompanied by a photo campaign conducted precisely for the occasion, overall, the book is doubtlessly original and offers a far-reaching and articulated repertory of Sienese painting, as well as of the Italian art panorama from the XIII century to the XIX century.

Museo dell'Opera – Siena. Dipinti, testi di Barbara Tavolari, Cinisello Balsamo (Milano), Silvana Editoriale, 2007, 181 pp.

The Museo dell'Opera was born in 1869. Its premises were formed by walling up the first three spans of the right aisle of what was originally intended to be the "Duomo Nuovo". Inside, it houses several absolute masterpieces of Tuscan painting, from the primitives of the XIII and XIV centuries to works of the XVII century. Its main nucleus and work of greatest value is doubtlessly the extraordinary Maestà and the superb Stained-glass Window, both from the Cathedral and created by Duccio di Buoninsegna between 1290 and 1311..

Sauro Cantini, Le campane di Siena nella storia della città, con un saggio di Mino Marchetti, introduzione di Italo Moretti, Siena, Edizioni Cantagalli, 2006.

From the author's catalogue we learn that a bell, especially the inscriptions printed on the bronze, can offer a great deal of information about historical events, dates, dedications, the name of the patrons, of the founders, etc. etc. As for the Cathedral of Siena, we discover the substantial legacy it possesses in an ambit that till today had remained unexplored by the numerous scholars of Sienese art. Cantini's study also addresses the bells of other churches of the city, and ends with a profile dedicated to the celebrated Mangia Tower.

Walter Brandmüller, Il Concilio di Pavia-Siena 1423-1424. Verso la crisi del conciliarismo, traduzione di Michele Barbieri, Siena, Edizioni Cantagalli, 2004.

This study is of great scientific value and of fundamental importance for the history of the Church in the early Humanist Age, fruit of lengthy research conducted by an illustrious historian of Councils in many, many archives and libraries around Europe. However, the merit of Brandmüller, professor at the University of Augsburg and President of the Pontifical Committee of Historical Sciences, was also that of revealing, with the help of the most disparate sources, a period among those that expressed the most fervent activity in religious and diplomatic life for Siena, reconstructing one of the most fascinating affairs in the almost millenarian history of the Opera della Metropolitana.

Studi interdisciplinari sul Pavimento del Duomo di Siena. Iconografia, stile, indagini scientifiche, atti del Convegno internazionale di studi (Siena, Chiesa della SS. Annunziata, 27 e 28 settembre 2002), a cura di Marilena Caciorgna, Roberto Guerrini, Mario Lorenzoni, Siena, Edizioni Cantagalli, 2005.

The Opera della Metropolitana di Siena organised an international study conference on the "Floor of the Cathedral", held on September 27 and 28 2002, which witnessed the participation of Italian and foreign scholars, and the contribution of prestigious institutions. Moving on what was mostly unexplored terrain, with an interdisciplinary perspective, they confronted themes of an iconographic, stylistic, historical and technical-scientific character. Overall, the minutes constitute a precious and, in many respects, innovative contribution to the interpretation, preservation, and valorisation of this monument that is fundamental in Sienese art.

Marilena Caciorgna, Roberto Guerrini, Il pavimento del duomo di Siena. L'arte della tarsia marmorea dal XIV al XIX secolo. Fonti e simbologia, foto di Andrea e Fabio Lensini, Cinisello Balsamo (Milano), Silvana Editoriale, 2004.

Fruit of more than a decade of research, this book intends to reply to what is considered to be a priority need: to prepare, if we may say so, an edition of the great figurative text implicitly contained in the Floor, and to provide the tools indispensable to understand and evaluate it. In this perspective, interest has focused on the ancient, medieval and modern sources that inspired the choice of subjects, and made it possible to grasp the symbology of the individual cycles and of the entire structure. The exegetic undertaking indeed contextually addresses investigating and highlighting the tissue of symbols, allegories, spiritual and religious motivations. The goal is to decipher the various panels on the floor, as well as the general layout of a project that unfolded and took shape over the course of centuries. Through the progressive study of the various figurations, a unitary programme forcefully emerges that guides the itinerary from the entrance inside the «very chaste» Temple of the Virgin, through classical antiquity, the history of the Jews, the episodes of Salvation realised and fulfilled by the figure of Christ, constantly evoked and never represented in the Floor depictions, but present on the Altar that the artistic and spiritual itinerary converges towards.

Francesca Fumi Cambi Gado, La Foglia d'oro. Il segreto della Maestà di Duccio, Firenze, Edizioni Polistampa, 2010, Aureum Pulvisculum,  collana di racconti e scritti brevi di storia dell'arte diretta da Marilena Caciorgna e Francesca Fumi Cambi Gado.

The precious little story of the Maestà by Duccio di Buoninsegna is an fantastic incursion into the territories of art history and medieval spirituality of Siena, which conceals a secret message ...