The building, also known as il Villino and Le Tavernucole, was renamed L’Eremo (The Hermitage) by the Gamberucci-Ludovici who bought the building in 1892.
In 1427, the building was a simple worker home with an adjoining farm and belonged to the Zati. Since the beginning of the sixteenth century it is mentioned as a villa in 1538 and belonged to a certain priest Francesco di Lorenzo. In 1688 the owner was the Canon Ruberto de’ Medici and would remain amongst the possessions of the family until 1776. It then passed to the Masetti, to the Covoni and, since 1827, to the Micali, who, in 1892, sold it to the Gamberucci-Ludovici. In the last century it belonged to Mrs. Ghira Lichtenauer who donated to the Dominican Fathers of the Caldine di Fiesole, who then sold it to private owners.
In the villa is the oratory of San Roberto, built in the seventeenth century by the will of Ruberto Francesco de’ Medici and was completely redone by Anton Maria Cardi who became owner in 1702. From nineteenth-century documents, we know that the villa had two farms and a farmhouse named L’Eremo I and II.
