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AMMANATI,Bartolommeo (1511-1592). Nine autograph letters signed, one letter signed, one letter written and signed in his name, two letters written and signed by his agent Benedetto Giramonte, nine to Francesco Busini and four to Giovanni Caccini, Provveditori in Pisa, Florence 11 November 1564 - 9 August 1578, with one copy of a letter to Ammanati Pisa, 26 April 1572, primarily concerned with the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, altogether 12 pages, sizes 270 x 205mm - 350 x 230mm, 9 with integral address leaves and cut to provide seal strip, 4 with address panels, all with contemporary endorsements, 4 with papered seals, 9 with traces of seal (one letter darkened and with small seal tear, one folded and with small tears and wear along right-hand edge).
Cosimo I's wife was Eleonora of Toledo, daughter of the Imperial Viceroy in Naples. She appears to have had responsibility for the move of Cosimo's ever-increasing family from their inconvenient occupation of the Palazzo della Signoria. She bought the 15th-century palace built by Luca Pitti on the opposite bank of the Arno. The Pitti palace was extended and improved until it was transformed into a suitable residence for the Grand Dukes of Tuscany. The foundations were laid in 1560 and by the following year Ammanati was appointed sole architect. His most innovative and enduring contribution was the provision of a half-sunken courtyard at the back of the palace, where it opened onto a hillside.
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Cosimo I's wife was Eleonora of Toledo, daughter of the Imperial Viceroy in Naples. She appears to have had responsibility for the move of Cosimo's ever-increasing family from their inconvenient occupation of the Palazzo della Signoria. She bought the 15th-century palace built by Luca Pitti on the opposite bank of the Arno. The Pitti palace was extended and improved until it was transformed into a suitable residence for the Grand Dukes of Tuscany. The foundations were laid in 1560 and by the following year Ammanati was appointed sole architect. His most innovative and enduring contribution was the provision of a half-sunken courtyard at the back of the palace, where it opened onto a hillside.
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