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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.
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.
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.
•1434Cosimo I begins Medici rule in Florence
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.