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TheVilla Medici is a patrician villa inFiesole,Tuscany, Italy, the fourth oldest of thevillas built for theMedici family. It was built between 1451 and 1457. It is part of theUNESCOWorld Heritage Site inscribed asMedici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany.
Villa Medici in Fiesole is mentioned inMichael Ondaatje's 1992 novelThe English Patient, where the titular character identifies a ruined convent as either Villa Bruscoli or Villa Medici in Fiesole.[1]
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