In the second half of the fourteenth century the Sienese aristocrat Stricoccio Marescotti, who had dedicated his life to penitence and the care of the sick, turned his small country house on the Capriola Hill into an oratory dedicated to Saint Onuphrius the Hermit, donating it to the Hospital of  Santa Maria della Scala. In the early fifteenth century, after having ensured that the Hospital . . .