[19] Benedetto Varchi. _Storia Florentina._ Lib. IX. p. 251 F. Mazzei in a pamphlet, _La Macine a Montughi_, gives another derivation; he says that in 1100 the Marchioness Villa left large estates to her son Ugone in this district, and thence the hill was called _Montem Hugonis_, corrupted into Montui by the common people and into Montughi by writers. [20] Moreni. _Contorni di Firense._ Vol. I. p. 45, _et seq._ [21] Now belonging to Mr Mason. [22] Cosimo’s favourite son, who died 1463. [23] Villa Lemmi. The frescoes by Botticelli, now in the Louvre, were discovered there. [24] John Addington Symonds. _Renaissance in Italy._ _The Revival of Learning_, p. 320. [25] Angelo Poliziano. _Carmina_, etc., p. 179. [26] J. A. Symonds. _Renaissance in Italy._ _The Revival of Learning_, p. 331. [Illustration: COSIMO PATER PATRIAE, By MICHELOZZI. (_Villa di Cafaggiuolo_).] [Illustration: LORENZO DE’ MEDICI, By NICCOLÒ FIORENTINO. (_Villa di Coreggi_).] [Illustration: MARSILIO FICINO, By ANONIMO. (_Villa Medici_).] [Illustration: (Drawing of Villa Di Rusciano)] VILLA DI RUSCIANO About a mile outside the great three-storied gateway of San Niccolò stands the old brown villa of Rusciano, which even in the days of Sacchetti had the reputation of changing masters more frequently than any other in Tuscany. It is first mentioned in 785, when Charlemagne is said to have granted the estate to the church of San Miniato a Monte; three centuries later Pope Nicholas II, gave it to the hospital of St Eusebius, popularly known as San Sebbo; then it belonged to two sisters, Buoninsegna and Princia, who in 1267 sold the house and lands to the nuns of San Jacopo in Pian di Ripoli. After passing through several other hands it was bought by Luca Pitti, who crowned the beautiful hill with what Vasari calls “a luxurious and superb palace,” built, or rather adapted and enlarged for him in 1434 by Brunelleschi, to render it a fitting residence for one who was Gonfalonier of Florence and at the height of his prosperity.