Note 437 — Chapter III

Repetti, l. c. i. 380. Palla Strozzi paid 7,390 gold florins for Poggio a Cajano; and his beautiful villa of Petraja, which he had bought of the Brunelleschi, served as security for the purchase. In the next century, after the attempt of the Strozzi and their friends against Duke Cosimo had failed, Petraja was confiscated and became state property. Angiullesi’s Notizie storiche dei palazzi e ville appartenenti alla R. Corona di Toscana (Pisa, 1815) contain no notice of the earlier history of Poggio a Cajano.