Nina Burleigh is an American journalist (The New York Observer, Time and The New York Times among others) and au thor of five books. She has traveled widely and lived with her family in Perugia for a year whilst working on The Fatal Gift of Beauty , a book about the trial of Amanda Knox . Considering Nina's accomplished curriculum the last thing I'd expected from our meeting in Siena was for her to arrive on top of a b icycle. Tourists walk and l ocals ride - if anything - a Vespa through the up and downs of Tuscany's hill t owns. But hopefully, Nina Burleigh's three autumn weeks spent whizzing t hrough Siena on a b ike will have changed this forever. What brought you to Siena? And was it just wine or food or were you working too? The Siena Art Institute and American artist Amy Yoes, who was curating a project involving expeditions with Mark Dion, and creating a major art installation at the Museum ...