All day, every day, she looked outside her window, waiting for her love’s return.
Grifoni had left for war and his young wife waited him forever, looking outside her window: even if she never saw him come back, one of the shutters at the top right of the palace always remained open.
Another version of the story says that the lonely woman had become the secret lover of the Grand Duke Ferdinand I, the knight portrayed by the statue in Piazza Santissima Annunziata, just in front of the building.
A suspect arises observing the man’s eyes: his look is directed precisely towards that window with an open shutter…
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