Episode 65: Building a State

Now secure in his reign, Cosimo sets about building something like a modern state. But was he a reformer, a tyrant, or something in-between?

The Uffizi, built during the reign of Duke Cosimo I. Source: Arek N.

A portrait of Eleanor of Toledo by Agnolo Bronzino, which was based on an earlier, now lost portrait and painted on the occasion of her death in 1562. Source: Palazzo Pitti.