 The Palazzina once formed the south west corner of the Pitti, and is little visited.When the frescoes were painted, the Palazzina rooms were part of the mezzanine apartment of Grand-prince Ferdinando de' Medici, son of the Grand Duke Cosimo III and child-pupil of Vicenzo Viviani.Viviana was a court scholar who had been devoted to Galileo in the master’s last years, and even published some of his papers posthumously.