Villa La Quiete

The Quiet Villa, so named for the fresco overlooking the twenty The Quiet (1633) by Giovanni da San Giovanni, is the result of successive expansions and mergers that took place between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, when the villa was doubled with the construction of two new wings at the close of the second courtyard. Purchased in 1593 by Pier Francesco de 'Medici, Cosimo I was under the seat of the commanders of the Order of Saint Stephen .. The Grand Duke Ferdinando II de' Medici then granted to Eleanor Ramirez Montalvo that, since 1650, destined for the withdrawal of campaign of the Congregation she founded, the Montalve destined to the education of noble girls. In 1724 Anna Maria Luisa, the last descendant of the Medici family moved to the Peace and endowed the villa of an Italian garden, for which enlisted the advice of Sebastian Rapi gardener Boboli. 

On the ground floor of the Conservatory is a historic pharmacy. It is not certain if it was built at the same time the foundation of the Institute or at a later date, although some objects belonging to its endowment and dating from the late seventeenth century, would suggest an already from that period. It ceased its activity with the suppression of the Institute during the Napoleonic era. The furniture, consisting of a series of cabinets with glass doors and a breakfast bar with marble top, is characterized by the simplicity of the whole with a few decorative elements. Interesting is the supplied ceramic and vitreous which testifies to the activities that took place between the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of XIX: it is made ​​up of some round bowls with lids, majolica jars, cans white ceramic urn vases and other vessels of manufacture of Doccia. 

Today it houses the Cultural Centre for Foreigners relating to the University of Florence.