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A Private Guide, the Palatina, and What Court Life Was Actually Like

The royal palace of Florence, visited privately: the state rooms, the paintings, and the collections the Medici assembled inside their own house. The walls carry Titian, Raphael and Caravaggio, hung as part of a family collection rather than a museum sequence. The route takes in the Palazzo Pitti and the Palatine Gallery. What a private guide changes here is the second half of the subject. The pictures can be read from a label; the way the court around them worked, who lived in which rooms and what happened in them, is the part that needs someone telling it, and there is no group to slow the questions down.