Little madrigals, in the name of love and in the name of the beauty of nature, certain malinconic tones and certain notes of suffering, remind us of the dear feelings of the poems of Petrarca, more than those of the 500 when the author, Giovan Battista Strozzi, elegant and nobil gentleman selected the words we find today in his verses. And it is to him – The Poet – that we give the face of the Palace in via de’ Tornabuoni.

The Florentine Baroque
The Strozzi were the proprietary in this street of an elegant and large palace which they bought from Monaldi (...).
It was the poet Strozzi who commissioned Gherardo Silvani – it was the years of the twenties in the XVII century -- to design a palace with one of the most beautiful facades of its time. In fact, he completed his task by creating a prospect of good taste and grand equilibrio, adding another example, to those already existing, of architecture which can be called baroque, which one time intended also as Florentine, signifying that they did not want to leave, to follow the new mode, the traditions of the years 500 which gave importance to the architecture of the era.

The Palace is three stories high (two above ground level) with a terrace off the center window of the nobele floor, and on this same floor there are two statues, which demonstrate, supporting the armes of the Strozzi above the central window. The Palace, in the second half of the 600, passed to new owners: the Suarez, and then the Giaconi and others. (...)