Example sentences for: cosimo

How can you use “cosimo” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Across the tops of these small former workshops, Vasari provided a covered corridor for Duke Cosimo to keep out of the rain when crossing from his Pitti Palace to the Uffizi.

  • Among the Cellini bronzes is an imposing bust of his master, Duke Cosimo.

  • Upstairs, the Salone dei Cinquecento was built in 1495 for the short-lived Florentine Republic before serving as Duke Cosimo’s throne room and, three centuries later, the chamber of Italy’s first national parliament.

  • After a brief stint living in the Palazzo Vecchio in the Piazza della Signoria, Duke Cosimo I and his wife, Eleonora of Toledo, acquired the palace from the bankrupt Pitti merchant family in 1549 as the Medici’s official residence; it was enlarged and embellished substantially over the centuries.

  • Duke Cosimo had Vasari design it in 1560 as a series of government offices (hence its name), a mint for the city’s florin, and workshops for the Medici’s craftsmen.


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