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Palazzo Strozzi in Florence is one of the finest Italian Renaissance palaces. Of imposing size (15 buildings were destroyed to make him well placed) is located between the homonymous street Strozzi and Piazza Strozzi and Via Tornabuoni, with three great portals identical on many sides. A masterpiece of civil architecture of the Florentine Renaissance, was begun at the behest of Filippo Strozzi, a wealthy merchant belonging to one of the wealthiest families in Florence, traditionally hostile to the faction of the Medici. The Strozzi family was exiled from Florence in 1434 because of his opposition to the Medici, but thanks to the fortune accumulated by Filippo Strozzi as a banker in Naples, he was able to return to the city in 1466, determined to crush its rivals. This became an obsession for years and he bought and demolished buildings around his residence until he had the land necessary to raise the largest palace ever seen in Florence.
The palace is the most perfect example of the ideal of the Renaissance mansion. It was deliberately built larger than the Palazzo Medici, from which copied the shape of a cube built on three floors around a central courtyard. Although the faade is almost identical. The building has been owned by the Strozzi family until 1937, when it was purchased by the National Insurance, later restored and transferred to the State in 1999. It is currently home to three major institutions: in addition to the now historical presence of the Cabinet G. P. Vieusseux and the Institute for Studies in the Renaissance both by 1940), Palazzo Strozzi welcomes today the Institute of Humanistic Studies and the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi.
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