Nano Morgante: the most famous buffoon of Cosimo I de'Medici.

The Dwarf Morgante, (born Braccio di Bartolo) was the most famous and brilliant of the
five buffoons who lived at the court of Cosimo I de’Medici. A post mortem poem by
Antonio Francesco Grazzini remembers him as: “Il più saggio ed accorto, il più raro
sovrano buffòn che mai vedesse o Sole o stella”. Both his portrait by Bronzino and a
marble sculpture by Valerio Cioli, can still be admired at Pitti Palace and Boboli
Gardens, Florence.