* Allegory of Bad Government. Fourteenth-century frescoes by: AMBROSE LORENZETTI: born in Siena in Siena about 1290-died 1348. Apology not proud of age: I would like to be attacked because they like me. but do not have the means and So, you're doomed to failure. spit Now I fell on my bones, but do not forget that, until yesterday, I have celebrated.