According to legend, a young noble from Volterra, Ajone,[4] once traveled through a distant land and deep in the forest met Ine, who was weeping for her beautiful daughter, Figline, abducted by a man named Gambasso.

Following this defeat, the people of Montaione reverted to idolatry and decided to sacrifice the village's most beautiful girl, Filli, to the gods in hopes of securing peace and happiness.

[9] At the end of the 11th century, a family called Tebaldi, but also 'della Vitella' or 'd'Aquona' (from the place where they lived, the castle of Quona), dominated the town of Pontassieve, east of Florence.

'Salutat Alexander Filicarius tuus, vir quantum probus tantum nobis carus, ergo carissimus' (January 13, 1474, Marsilio Ficino to the Magnificent (L. de' Medici, p. XXII)).

Among other things, he participated in the Pratiche Riunite convened in 1505, which discussed measures to be taken for the reconquest of Pisa, which had rebelled in 1494 and was finally brought back under Florentine control only in 1509, with the entry into the city of his cousin Antonio da Filicaja, along with Averardo Salviati and Niccolò Capponi.

He served multiple times as one of the Consoli del Mare, and during one of his stays in Pisa while holding this office, his daughter Ersilia died and was buried in the church of S. Martino a Chinzia.

In the summer of 1501, just before returning to Florence, he met the Prince of Piombino (Iacopo IV d'Appiano), who, while fleeing toward France pursued by Valentino, entrusted his son to Antonio's care.

In 1504, he served for six months on the Council of Ten and was sent to Livorno to negotiate the hiring of a captain of galleys from the King of Naples, who was tasked with blockading the mouth of the Arno.

In the early months of 1509, after a very contentious vote, Antonio da Filicaja, Averardo Salviati, and Niccolò Capponi were elected commissioners for the region around Pisa.

On June 8 of the same year, the three commissioners entered Pisa as victors, followed by their troops, and their names were inscribed on a marble slab at the entrance to Palazzo Pretorio as a perpetual reminder of their achievements.

Gerolamo informed the Magnifici et Excelsi Domini of the Florentine government on July 22, 1503, that Alessandro degli Albizi, Leonardo da Vinci, and four others had arrived in the area of operations.

After this region was annexed, its government was entrusted to Antonio, first as special commissioner and later as captain of San Leo until 1522, when he requested to be relieved from his duties for health reasons.

During this period, they purchased palaces and warehouses in Lisbon, aided in this endeavor by an agreement between Francesco I de' Medici and King Sebastian of Portugal, under which several Florentine merchants, including the Filicaja family, obtained a privileged concession for importing pepper and other spices.

However, a few years later (1580), the unification of the kingdoms of Portugal and Spain under Emperor Philip II led to a significant decline in Lisbon's commercial importance, eventually forcing the Filicaja family to close their Portuguese operations.

As a result, Baccio da Filicaja (1575–1610), who had arrived in Portugal at a young age during the height of its trade, found himself as an adult needing to reinvent his career.

At the age of twenty, he landed in Brazil, where he was appointed by Governor Francisco de Sousa as Chief Engineer, tasked with fortifying ports, building some fortresses, and restoring others.

During this period, after the annexation of Portugal to the Imperial Crown and the defeat of the Spanish Armada, Brazil was subject to constant English raids and the slow settlement of French colonists in the northern area of Pernambuco.

Despite the many coincidences (a Baccio da Filicaja disappeared in the Atlantic in 1610 while en route to Brazil; a nearly coeval Bacho de Filicaya appeared in Buenos Aires in 1611; the latter was assigned engineering and architectural tasks, while the former was an engineer/architect), no documents have yet been found to support the—albeit likely—hypothesis that they were the same person.

At the age of forty, he composed and published his first poetic works, which brought him fame, thanks in part to his cultural partnership and friendship with Queen Christina of Sweden, who had converted to Catholicism and was living in Rome.

Indeed, the poet lived his life under financial constraints, always hesitant to accept public positions for fear of losing his freedom; and Christina was generous with her assistance.

After Christina's death, Vincenzo was forced to seek practical sources of support, eventually securing a position for his son Baccio as a page at the Medici court.

After attending yet another execution, enjoyed from the front row thanks to a generous tip secretly given to the executioner, Galletti became obsessed with the idea of wanting to meet the same fate as the condemned, with the rope tightening around his neck, choking the life out of him.

So, he decided to commit an act so extreme that it couldn't be ignored: one night, he cleverly broke into the little church of Santa Brigida on Via del Paradiso and stole an ancient, highly valuable silver bell.