The Fienile room named after the fattori, the stewards who ran Tuscan estates. A double room on the first floor, bathroom shared with the Garzoni Room. Opening January 2027.
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In the Tuscany of the mezzadria, the fattore was the estate's manager: the owner's man, who lived at the fattoria, kept the account books, decided the sowing and split the harvest in half between the landlord and the farming family. The mezzadria contract, documented in Tuscany since the Middle Ages, organised the Mugello countryside for centuries: the owner provided the land and the house, the mezzadro the labour, and the fruits were shared.
The eighteenth century under the Lorraine dynasty was the century of agrarian reform. In 1753 the Accademia dei Georgofili, Europe's first agricultural academy, was founded in Florence; under Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo (1765–1790) a new model of farmhouse spread across the estates of the Grand Duchy, rational and repeatable, and took his name: the leopoldina. The main house of this estate is one of those houses. Il Fienile, next to it, still carries the name of what it was then.
The mezzadria ended by law: Law 756 of 15 September 1964 banned new contracts, and Law 203 of 3 May 1982 converted the remaining ones into tenancies. With the mezzadri went the fattori. What remains are their ledgers, in the archives of the fattorie, and the houses they had in their keeping.
The Fattori Room is the double room of Il Fienile: a large bed, a French window onto the green, the timber roof left exposed. The bathroom, shared with the Garzoni Room, is a few steps away.
