The piazzale of the Offices or Piazzale degli Uffizi or Piazzale Uffizi , is a cortile due to the architect Giorgio Vasari (since called piazzale ) lengthened who forms a bordered street of the two long buildings of the Offices of Florence, joined together side of the Arno by a porch with doric columns. This space included/understood in front of the loggiato in architraves with vaults is delimited by pillars which comprise niches, in which are placed the statues in homages to an anthology of great men of Florence and Toscane.

Some of its statues are of Pio Fedi like those of Nicola Pisano and Andrea Cesalpino.
That of Machiavel is of Lorenzo Bartolini.

Great men

They are statesmen, artists, scholars, the humanistic ones, writers, scientists, navigators, or even of the catholic saints, 10th century at the 19th century, having taken part all in re-elected of Florence and Tuscany:

1. Cosme de Médicis (Florence, 1389 - Florence, 1464), banker and Italian statesman, the founder of the political dynasty of the Médicis.

2. Laurent de Médicis (1449 - 1492) known as also Laurent Splendid the , Italian statesman, the leader de facto of the republic florentine during the Italian Rebirth.
3. Andrea Orcagna (Florence ~1308 - Florence 1368), painter, sculptor, goldsmith, mosaïste and Florentin architect.
4. Nicola Pisano (~1220 - ~1278), Architect and Italian sculptor.
5. Giotto di Bondone (Vespignano, 1267 - Florence, 1337), painter, sculptor and Italian architect at the origin of the revival of the Western Peinture.
6. Donatello (Florence, ~1386 - Florence, 1466), Italian Sculptor.
7. Leon Battista Alberti (Genoa, 1404 - Rome, 1472), writer, Philosopher, painter, architect.
8. Léonard de Vinci (Vinci, 1452 - Amboise, 1519) multidisciplinary and prolific Italian genious painter and scientist.
9. Michel-Angel 1475 (Caprese, 1475 - Rome, 1564) painter, sculptor, poet and Italian architect of the Rebirth.
10. Dante Alighieri (Florence, 1265 - Ravenne, 1321) poet, politician and Florentin writer.
11. Pétrarque (Arezzo, 1304 - Arquà Petrarca, 1374) scholar, Humanistic poet and Italian.
12. Boccace (Certaldo or in Florence, 1313 - Certaldo, 1375), writer.
13. Machiavel (Florence, 1469 - 1527), Italian thinker of the Rebirth, theorist of the policy and the war.
14. Francesco Guicciardini (Florence, 1482 - Arcetri, 1540), Florentin historian.
15. Amerigo Vespucci (Florence, 1454 - Seville, 151, merchant and navigator having given his name to the American continent.
16. Francesco Ferrucci (Florence, 1489 - Gavinana, 1530) military Italian, Condottiere of the Republic of Florence.
17. Jean of the Black Bands (Forli, 1498 - Mantoue, 1526), celebrates Italian condottiere of the Médicis family during the Rebirth.
18. Piero Capponi (1447 - 1496), statesman and Italian condottiere.
19. Farinata degli Uberti (death in 1264), chief of the faction Gibelin S of Florence.
20. Galileo (Pisa, 1564 - Arcetri, 1642) physicist and Italian Astronome celebrates to have thrown the bases of mechanical sciences like for its obstinate defense of the design copernic ienne of the universe.
21. Pier Antonio Micheli (Florence, 1679 - Florence, 1737), Botanist and Italian mycologist, considered as the father of the modern Mycology.
22. Francesco Redi (Arezzo, 1626 - Pisa, 1697), doctor, biologist and Italian poet.
23. Paolo Mascagni Pomarance, 1755 - Chiusdino, 1815), scientific Italian
24. Andrea Cesalpino (Arezzo, 1519 - Rome, 1603), philosopher, doctor, Naturalist and Italian botanist.
25. Sant' Antonino Pierozzi (Florence, 1389 - Montughi, 1459) venerated like Holy of the Catholic church,
26. François Accurse (Florence, 1182 or 1151 - 1260 or 1229), Jurisconsult.
27. Guido d' Arezzo (~990 - after 1033), monk Italian Benedictine at the origin of the Western system of denomination of the musical notes.
28. Benvenuto Cellini (1500 - 1571), artist of the Italian Rebirth, Goldsmith and Florentin sculptor.

Statues of the cortile

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