Purchased by Simone di Jacopo Corsi in 1502, the villa was enlarged in the course of the 17th century. In this period, the garden was targeted with a radical transformation and organised into geometric beds, and embellished with complex giochi d’acqua, on a plan by famous architect Gherardo Silvani. The seventeenth century arrangement, enlarged again in geometric forms in the 18th century, was partially erased around 1815 when the park was adapted to the romantic tastes of the time. This period also marked the introduction of the first exotic plants by marquis Francesco Antonio Corsi Salviati. It was precisely to guarantee the survival of several rare plants, including numerous palms, that the marquis had two greenhouses built and heated by means of steam heaters. His passion for botany was inherited by his son Bardo who increased the species cultivated by his father with the introduction of particular ornamental plants, including the Persian buttercups of Florence. In the early nineteen-hundreds, the villa was inherited by count Giulio Guicciardini Corsi Salviati who attempted to restore the garden to its eighteenth-century appearance. This arrangement is still visible in the vegetation theatre, part of the old trammel-net, the small plant labyrinth and artificial lake.