When Simone di Jacopo Corsi bought an estate with a “manor house” in 1503, it already had a “walled garden”, at the back, as seen in the turn-of-the-century fresco in the Camerino delle Grottesche, a garden with geometric grass beds and a pond with a statue in the centre. From this original layout, designed according to the dictates of the Italian-style garden established by Tribolo and his son-in-law Fortini in Boboli, the Villa’s outdoor space then evolved through the refined alterations of the eighteenth century and the exotic cultivations of the nineteenth century, on to a carefully considered Italian revival at the beginning of the last century carried out with the great knowledge and skill of Giulio Guicciardini.