Located in the Fontebranda district and belonging to the woolworkers guild, the house is divided into three levels. In the first half of the fourteenth century it was rented to Catherine’s father, the cloth-dyer Jacopo Benincasa, as a warehouse for dyeing cloth and as a home for his large family.

After the Benincasa family fell into decline, the property passed into the hands of another dyer, . . .