An easy one today. Twenty-eight notable Italian men — Accorso, Dante Alighieri, Sant Antonino, Leon Battista Alberti, Guido Aretino, Giovanni Boccaccio, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Pier Capponi, Benvenuto Cellini, Andrea Cesalpino, Andrea di Cione, Donatello, Francesco Ferrucci, Galileo Galilei, Giotto, Francesco Guicciardini, Nicolo Machiavelli, Paolo Mascagni, Cosimo de Medici, Lorenzo “Il Magnifico” de Medici, Pier Antonio Micheli, Giovanni Dalle Bande Nere, Francesco Petrarca, Nicola Pisano, Francesco Redi, Farinata Degli Uberti, Amerigo Vespucci, Leonardo da Vinci — can today be found together in one place which was never intended for them. Where is that place?
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Paintings on the various men’s room walls of The Olive Garden.
Is it that they all have funerary monuments in the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence? I only confirmed a couple of these names, though, so maybe I’m wrong.
Scratch that. Move my guess a few blocks South. They all have statues outside the Uffizi.
The Piazzetta delgi Uffizi is indeed the answer we were looking for. The niches in the cortile were originally intended to be left vacant; the statues of Florence’s greatest sons were added in the nineteenth century, funded by lotteries.