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Villa Il Palmerino

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268: 286: 29: 218:, a type of mediaeval religious trust under which the church owned the property but the income was assigned to a secular beneficiary. The last member of the family to benefit from the arrangement was Jacopo Palmerini, who died on 22 June 1705. The estate then passed to Giovanni Battista Federighi, whose son Antonio sold it in 1724 to Pier Francesco Mormorai. In 1795 Zanobi Mormorai left it in his will to Bernardo and Francesco, sons of Dionisi Baldi della Scarperia. In 1855 it passed into the ownership of the 256: 248:
rented it, and – with Violet and her half-brother – moved from the city of Florence to live there. It was a typical square Tuscan farmhouse, facing onto the road, and had several agricultural buildings. Paget's mother died in 1896, and her brother went to the United States. In 1906 Paget, a writer
267: 212:). On the death of Ottaviano the property passed to his daughters Lorenza and Margherita; in 1545 Margherita's husband Benedetto di Papi Palmerini bought out Lorenza's share, made improvements to the villa, and established a 86: 285: 232: 147: 227: 79: 373: 378: 255: 249:
who used the pen-name Vernon Lee, was able to buy the property, and lived there until her death in 1935.
223: 219: 355: 317: 238: 197: 241:, it became public property, and on 18 February 1868 was sold at auction to Luigi De Pier-Uccioni. 337: 201: 209: 171: 28: 205: 367: 313: 245: 151: 186: 131: 101: 88: 155: 358:(doctoral thesis). Bristol: University of Bristol. Accessed January 2018. 214: 143: 135: 64: 190: 176: 139: 277: 182: 200:
goldsmith Ottaviano d'Antonio di Duccio, the brother of
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The first documented owner was the fifteenth-century
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La parrocchia di S. Martino a Majano: Cenni storici
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a typical Tuscan villa façade, white stucco with pieta serena surrounds to door and windows
Florence
Coordinates
43°47′32″N 11°17′34″E / 43.7922°N 11.2927°E / 43.7922; 11.2927
Settignano
Florence
Fiesole
frazione
San Domenico
Violet Paget
pseudonym
Affrico
it
Arno
Settignano
Fiesole
Florentine
Agostino di Duccio
Giorgio Vasari
Luca Della Robbia
commenda
Franciscan friars
Santa Croce
suppression of the religious orders
it
unification of Italy
Violet Paget
The gardens
Fonte della giovinezza e uomini illustri, fifteenth-century fresco
fresco

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