Livorno and the Etruscan Coast - Villa Toscanelli
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The “simple tenants with a vegetable garden and grape vineyard” in the village of Treggiaia date back to 1566. The farm, together with a farmhouse known as La Cava, was the property of Iacopo Di Ridolfo Riccardi. With the marquis Riccardi of Florence, the villa experienced a period of great splendor when the rich and powerful commercial family reached its maximum notoriety under the Medici Principality, and was considered to be the clanwith the highest private patrimony in Tuscany.
From the inventory of property compiled upon the death of Riccardo Riccardi (1611), the “Cava estate in the Treggiaia municipality” was defined as being formed of “a large farmhouse used for the workers with a pigeon coopand all appurtenances”. In fact, it was only in the mid seventeenth century that architectural and landscaping renovations began that would bring the villa to have its current appearance.
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