Cinema and the City: Florence

Photo Portfolio: Cinema & The City By Danielle Cohen 1. HANNIBAL Palazzo Vecchio This is the shot where Inspector Pazzi is ultimately hanged by Hannibal. This location for this scene is important because Pazzi’s ancestor was also hanged from this exact balcony (with his bowels out) as he was being punished for attempting and somewhat succeeding at murdering members of the Medici family. Therefore, the same way his ancestor was punished for treason, Hannibal is punishing Inspector Pazzi in his own right but in the same fashion as his distant relative – bowels out.  Given that the Palazzo Vecchio was the epicenter where the Medici family asserted their immense power, Hannibal is placed strategically here to assert his intellectual and violent power over Inspector Pazzi. 2. INFERNO Palazzo Vecchio This was the scene at the very beginning of the film where Zobrist is running away from several ambiguous men at the time (i.e....