Note 910 — Chapter VII · DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
Giovanni Villani, xi. 93, our principal authority for the building of villas before the middle of the fourteenth century. The villas were more beautiful than the town houses, and great exertions were made by the Florentines to have them so, ‘onde erano tenuti matti.’