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'' of San Casciano Val di Pesa in the

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. This small, but long-established village is located between San Casciano Val di Pesa and Florence.

Niccolò Machiavelli Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli ( , , ; 3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527), occasionally rendered in English as Nicholas Machiavel ( , ; see below), was an Italian diplomat, author, philosopher and historian who lived during the Renaissance. ...

wrote his treatise ''

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'' at his home here, the Albergaccio, where he lived when in exile. A small museum is dedicated to the great writer; the villa, now Villa Bossi-Pucci stands close by the Hostel where Machiavelli used to "let off steam". Nearby is the thirteenth-century church of San Bartolomeo in Faltignano. This once possessed a painting on wood, depicting '' Saint Andrew'', by the school of

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; and a '' Madonna enthroned and saints'' attributed to the school of

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, today in the church of Chiesa nuova Val di Pesa. Not far from Sant'Andrea in Percussina, just outside Spedaletto, is the twelfth-century church of Santa Maria a Casavecchia, which contains a Della Robbia polychrome altarpiece in

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. Sant'Andrea in Percussina hosts the headquarters of th
Chianti Classico wine makers Consortium

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