Casa Machiavelli

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Casa Machiavelli

Casa Machiavelli , also known as l'Albergaccio (from Italian albergo , refuge, hostel ), was the residence of Niccolò Machiavelli during his exile . The estate is located in the district of Sant'Andrea in Percussina in the municipality of San Casciano in Val di Pesa in Tuscany . Connection was an old Roman post road.

history

The so-called Albergaccio came into the possession of the family line in 1470. Bernardo di Niccolò Machiavelli , the father, inherited two uncles. His household book, his Libro di Ricordi , gives an impression of life in the seventies and eighties of the 15th century with information about the rural circumstances between tenant farmers, carters and renovation work.

The small local church was also a benefice of the family. Totto, born in 1475, younger brother of the later well-known Niccolò di Bernardo Machiavelli, received it on July 5, 1515 after a relative gave up. Such a unification of secular and spiritual possessions in the hands of one and the same family corresponded - here: on the small level of the village - to the contemporary social structure.

Relationships existed for centuries with the Pitti who owned estates in Castelvecchio in Val di Pesa, southeast of San Casciano. They had once also sold the townhouses near Santa Felicita to them.

Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) was elected secretary and head of the second state chancellery from 1498 to 1512 and was one of the great and interesting personalities of the Renaissance . As a well-educated writer, he devoted his attention primarily to politics, which he was the first to understand as an independent science.

The Casa di Sant'Andrea in Percussina was one of the family's estates along with other properties. He retired here after exiled from Florence in 1512 when the Medici returned to power. The homestead with the associated inn ( osteria ) was described by Machiavelli in one of his most famous letters to his friend Francesco Vettori , dated December 10, 1513. It is about the activities during the day, which were characterized by the management of his property, and those in the evening, which passed with Tric Trac (a kind of backgammon) with guests of his osteria or the local butcher. But at night he retired to his library to read the classics that inspired him to write the little book, written in one piece in just a few months: The Principe , the work to which he owes his fame.

After his death, the house passed to his heirs and, always in this line, finally to the noble Florentine family of the Serristori . For a few years it has belonged to the Gruppo Italiano Vini , which has some of its most beautiful vineyards there and which has carefully restored the building. You can visit the grounds of the villa, the magnificent cellars and, through an underground passage, enter the osteria described by Machiavelli. It too has kept its ambience intact for centuries.

literature

  • Guido Carocci: Il Comune di San Casciano Val di Pesa . Tipografia Minori corrigendi, Firenze 1892.
  • Torquato Guarducci: Guide Illustrata della Valdipesa . Fratelli Stianti editori, San Casciano in Val di Pesa 1904.
  • Franco Lumachi: Guida di Sancasciano Val di Pesa . Pleion, Milano 1960.
  • Gaspero Righini: Il Chianti Classico. Note e memorie storico-artistiche-letterari . Pisa 1972.
  • Alessandro Conti: I dintorni di Firenze: arte, storia, paesaggio . La Casa Usher, Firenze 1983.
  • Giovanni Brachetti Montorselli, Italo Moretti, Renato Stopani: Le strade del Chianti Classico Gallo Nero . Bonechi, Firenze 1984.
  • Piero Bargellini, Otello Pampaloni: San Casciano, un paese nel Chianti . Ed .: Comune di San Casciano. San Casciano in Val di Pesa 1985.
  • Gian Bruno Ravenni: Firenze fuori le mura. Da Firenze verso il Chianti, il Mugello, la Valdelsa, il Montalbano . Giunti editore, Firenze 1993.
  • Italo Moretti, Vieri Favini, Aldo Favini: San Casciano . Loggia De 'Lanzi, Firenze 1994, ISBN 978-88-8105-010-9 .
  • Touring Club Italiano (Ed.): Firenze . Touring Club Italiano, Milano 2001, ISBN 88-365-1932-6 .

Web links

Commons : Casa Machiavelli (Faltignano)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pezzarossa, Fulvio: Bernardo Machiavelli. In: DBI 67 (2006), p. 63.
  2. ^ Vanna Arrighi: Machiavelli, Totto. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 67: Macchi – Malaspina. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2006, pp. 105-107.
  3. ↑ See the memory book of Buonaccorso Pitti - d. H. looking back from around 1400 - in: Branca, Vittore (ed.): Mercanti scrittori, Milan 1986, p. 352. and ibid. note 2.

Coordinates: 43 ° 40 ′ 58 ″  N , 11 ° 11 ′ 51 ″  E