Palazzo Nasi

Another Palazzo Torrigiani Del Nero, with a Mannerist or late-Renaissance-style facade stands closer to the river.

Giorgio Vasari indicated that the palace was begun under the direction of the architect Baccio d'Agnolo, and completed by his son, Domenico.

Bernardo Del Nero had been Gonfaloniere of Justice three times, and helped lead armies of the state against Costanzo I Sforza and the Genoese.

He left the palace and his property to his sister's son, Pietro Guadagni, who then took the surname Torrigiani.

Pietro was initially arrested by the Republican French authorities, but collaborated with Napoleon, gaining appointment to the Council of the Department of the Arno, and later as a baron.

[4] Tradition holds that in the 16th century, Nicolas Nasi sponsored a party with dancing to lure the wife of Luigi Capponi, the beautiful Luisa Strozzi, for whom the Duke Alessandro de'Medici had an amorous interest.