Sant'Andrea in Percussina
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Frazione
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of San Casciano Val di Pesa in the province of Florence
Province of Florence
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, Tuscany
Tuscany
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, Italy
Italy
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It is a small village of ancient origin and one of the most picturesque places in the area between San Casciano Val di Pesa and Florence.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian historian, philosopher, humanist, and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance. He is one of the main founders of modern political science. He was a diplomat, political philosopher, playwright, and a civil servant of the Florentine Republic...
wrote his treatise The Prince
The Prince
The Prince is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus . But the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after...
at his home here, the Albergaccio, where he lived when in exile.
Art
A small museum is dedicated to the great writer; the villa, now Bossi-Pucci stands close by the Hostelry where Machiavelli used to "let off steam".Nearby is the splendid thirteenth-century church of S. Bartolomeo in Faltignano. This once possessed an interesting painting on wood, probably of Agnolo Gaddi
Agnolo Gaddi
Agnolo Gaddi was an Italian painter. He was the son and pupil of the painter Taddeo Gaddi.Taddeo Gaddi was himself the major pupil of the Florentine master Giotto...
style, representing Saint Andrew
Saint Andrew
Saint Andrew , called in the Orthodox tradition Prōtoklētos, or the First-called, is a Christian Apostle and the brother of Saint Peter. The name "Andrew" , like other Greek names, appears to have been common among the Jews from the 3rd or 2nd century BC. No Hebrew or Aramaic name is recorded for him...
enthroned and a Madonna enthroned and saints attributed to the school of Filippino Lippi
Filippino Lippi
Filippino Lippi was an Italian painter working during the High Renaissance in Florence, Italy.-Biography:...
, today in the church of Chiesanuova Val di Pesa.
Not far from here, just outside Spedaletto, is the twelfth-century church of S. Maria a Casavecchia, which contains a Della Robbia
Della Robbia
Della Robbia may refer to:*Luca della Robbia , Italian sculptor*Andrea della Robbia , Italian sculptor, nephew of Luca*Giovanni della Robbia , son of Andrea*Girolamo della Robbia , son of Andrea...
polychrome altarpiece in terracotta.