The Fienile room named after the garzoni, the boys in service in farming families. Two single beds and a daybed, bathroom shared with the Fattori Room. Opening January 2027.
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The garzone was the boy in service: in the artisan's workshop as in the farming family, which he joined very young, for a season or for years, in exchange for board, lodging and a wage in money or in kind. He slept in the house, often several to a room, and ate at the family's table. It was the first rung of every trade.
The Mugello knows a famous one. Emilio Materassi, born in Borgo San Lorenzo in 1894, was a garzone in a rope-maker's workshop at fourteen; he would become a Bugatti driver and winner of the 1927 Targa Florio. His room is in La Leopoldina, a few metres from here.
Mezzadria families were large out of necessity: every mouth came with two arms, and more arms meant more land to hold in mezzadria. When the arms of the household were not enough, a garzone was taken on.
The Garzoni Room is the three-bed room of Il Fienile: two single beds and a daybed that is a real bed, under the timber roof, with two French windows onto the green. The bathroom is shared with the Fattori Room.
