Palazzo Spini Ferroni is a building in Piazza di Santa Trinita, Florence, Italy, the grandest private medieval palazzo in the city.
The palace was built from 1289 for the rich cloth merchant and banker Geri Spini, on the lands he had bought from the monks of Santa Trinita after the 1288 flood of the Arno.
After a period as a hotel, in 1846 the comune of Florence bought it, and it was later used for offices during the period when Florence was capital of Italy (1865-1871). In 1874 it was partly renovated in neo-medieval style; shop-fronts were opened in the ground floor and a tower and an arch facing the river Arno were demolished, giving it the aspect it has today. In the 1930s it was bought by Salvatore Ferragamo.
From 1995 the second floor has housed the museum founded by shoe designer Salvatore Ferragamo.
At the center of the Piazza di Santa Trinita stands the Column of Justice (Colonna della Giustizia), an imposing granite column coming from the Baths of Caracalla, and was given to Cosimo I de'Medici by Pope Pious IV in 1560. Cosimo placed it here to celebrate his victory over his rivals at Montemurlo in 1537, and changed the inscription when he was declared Grand Duke in 1569.
There was an interesting episode about the Column of Justice from the Wiki
In the years following the implementation of the statue of Justice, some guys who used to play on the Ponte Vecchio , were accused of stealing some jewels from some of the jewelers benches. The boys pleaded innocent, but were warned not to set foot on deck. Nonetheless, the thefts continued.
Some years later, in a regular operation of cleaning the statue of Justice, a magpie's nest was discovered inside one of the plates of the scale, with all the stolen goods inside.
Reminds me of the "nest" in Filippo Brunelleschi...
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