In his allegorical poems reminiscences of the master's style and literary habit are most frequent.
The one in the council chamber upstairs dates from 1527 and gives an allegorical representation of the Virtues and the Vices.
He is not always very critical, and he is passionately fond of allegorical interpretations, but these were the faults of his age.
The followers of Credner are literalists; the opposite school of moderns includes some literalists (as Duhm), while others (like Hilgenfeld, and in a modified sense Merx) adopt the old allegorical interpretation which treats the locusts as a figure for the enemies of Jerusalem.
In the Sala dei Nove or della Pace above are the noble allegorical frescoes of Ambrogio Lorenzetti representing the effects of just and unjust government; the Sala delle Balestre or del Mappamondo is painted by Simone di Martino (Memmi) and others, the Cappella della Signoria by Taddeo di Bartolo, and the Sala del Consistorio by Beccafumi.
