Florence Episode 11 The Palazzo Vecchio

Find out why Duke Cosimo di Medici moved his family into the Palazzo Vecchio, the building which was originally his office, and how he and his Spanish wife Eleonora di Toledo made it both a symbol of the power of the Medici family and a comfortable home for themselves and their numerous children.  Hear too how Machiavelli worked from here and about some of the unfortunates who were imprisoned in the Torre di Arnolfo, the high crenellated tower which rises above the Palazzo and can be seen from all over Florence.