Conceived by entrepreneur Angiolo Masini in honor of his second wife (who died before the end of the work) and as a home designed to celebrate the family fortune gained from the thriving hat factory of The Family, the palace (or villa) was commissioned Masini eng. Giuseppe Petrini, Montevarchi of birth and a personal friend of the entrepreneur, in 1924, returned to Tuscany after the period of training and working in Turin, the Petrini, abandoned the profession, worked as an engineer in the employ of the State Railways; For this reason the project was signed by the architect. Luigi Zumkeller, with which arose, in phase of realization, some controversy particularly as regards the insertion of the turret on the corner western. The work, which cost seems more than 2,000 pounds and entrusted to the Company Failli of Montevarchi, was completed in 1927; permission of habitability was released June 13, 1928.