 In 1565, the Mannelli family refused to have it altered or demolished so that the Vasari Corridor (a corridor commissioned by duke Cosimo I de' Medici to join the Uffizi with Palazzo Pitti on the other side of the river) could be built in a straight line.Instead the corridor swerved round it on brackets.The tower was damaged during World War II and was restored by architect Nello Baroni in 1944-1946.