Palazzo Naldini del Riccio

History

Two houses owned by the Tedaldi family were here in 1427. "In one of its workshops practised the art of sculpture Donatello and Michelozzo Michelozzi in the year 1433 and in that round. The year then 1498 Giuliano and Antonio Giamberti, known as da San Gallo, celebrated Florentine wood carvers and civil and military architects, leased from Lattanzio di Francesco Tedaldi the workshop of this house, which remains on the south corner".

Towards the middle of the 17th century, when ownership had passed to the Naldini, who had purchased the various portions that were to define the complex from 1532 onwards, construction of today's palace began, based on a design by Pier Francesco Silvani, then completed for Ottaviano Naldini by the architect Pietro Paolo Giovannozzi between 1726 and 1732, who "departed considerably from the primitive design". This initial design by Silvani is also testified to by Ferdinando Ranalli who, however, while attributing to the master "a beautiful staircase and some majestic windows", specifies that "little progress was then made on the said building, which was completed in the year 1726, and considerably enlarged with the assistance and design of the Florentine architect Pier Giovannozzi; who with good taste has completed many things and reduced them to a more modern and noble use". …