| Maria Maddalena de' Medici | |
| House: | Medici |
| Father: | Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany |
| Mother: | Christina of Lorraine |
| Birth Date: | 29 June 1600 |
| Birth Place: | Pitti Palace, Florence |
| Death Place: | Florence |
Maria Maddalena de' Medici (29 June 1600 – 28 December 1633) was a Tuscan princess, the eighth child and third daughter of Ferdinando I and Christina of Lorraine, making her the sister of Cosimo II.
Born disabled, she was christened at the age of nine. On 24 May 1621, she entered the Palazzo della Crocetta, attached to the Convento della Crocetta (Convent of the Little Cross, now the National Archaeological Museum), though she never took the monastic vows. When she died, she was buried there.
Maria Maddalena had difficulties climbing stairs. The rooms built for her at the monastery by the architect Giulio Parigi were connected by a series of raised passages above street level across which she could move without use of stairs and, as an added bonus, there was no need to cross the uneven and crowded street. Today four arches of one of these passages remain. They resemble covered bridges (Italian: ponti) or skybridges between upper floors of buildings:
In the Palazzo della Crocetta was a similar, long elevated corridor, called the Italian: corridoio mediceo, which Maddalena used to move among the remaining first floor rooms. This corridor was reminiscent of the Vasariano.