In London we have a more attractive though smaller derivative of the great days of Florentine building, in Standen's wool shop in Jermyn Street.
The Piazza della Signoria has such riches that one is in danger of neglecting some.

The Palazzo Vecchio, for example, so overpowers the Loggia de' Lanzi in size as to draw the eye from that perfect structure.

One should not allow this to happen; one should let the Palazzo Vecchio's solid nobility wait awhile and concentrate on the beauty of Orcagna's three arches.

Coming so freshly from his tabernacle in Or San Michele we are again reminded of the versatility of the early artists.
This structure, originally called the Loggia de' Priori or Loggia d'Orcagna, was built in the fourteenth century as an open place for the delivery of proclamations and for other ceremonies, and also as a shelter from the rain, the last being a purpose it still serves.

It was here that Savonarola's ordeal by fire would have had place had it not been frustrated.