In 1662 Francesca’s last son died heirless. The possessions were donated to the Istituto fiorentino dei Poveri Vergognosi who immediately sold them to the Florentine nobleman Vincenzo Viviani (born in Florence on 5th April 1622 – dead on 22nd September 1703). Vincenzo Viviani enlarged the possessions by buying nearby lands till 1696. He was a mathematician and had been the pupil of Galileo Galilei and Evangelista Torricelli.

As he died heirless his possessions, including the ones in Empoli, were handed down to Giambattista Clemente Nelli who was the son of one of his friends. The only condition to get the inheritance was to make a monument fit for the great master Galileo Galilei in Santa Croce. The monument was placed opposite Michelangelo’s grave. Giambattista Clemente Nelli died in 1793 leaving his possessions, including the ones in Empoli, to his children.

Nelli’s heirs alienated most of their father’s properties, including “Villa di Loro”.
In 1849 the estate of “Villa di Loro” was purchased by Lord Mariano Bini from Empoli.

The Bini family kept the possessions till 1930, when Giuseppina Bini got married to the Florentine aristocrat – of French extraction – Giuseppe De Plaisant and brought the estate of “Villa di Loro” as dowry. Giuseppe De Plaisant was the owner of the “Fattoria” (estate) di Martignana”, very near the lands of “Fattoria di Loro”. Their marriage caused the union of the two estates with the establishment of a farm of more than 150 hectares, and “Villa di Loro” became the very business centre. Mr and Mrs De Plaisant in the 1970s bequeathed the “Fattoria di Loro” to their daughter Limbania, who took care of the farm and the Villa until her death.

Since 2018 the ownership of “Fattoria di Loro” has belonged to the Fabbrizzi family who have started important restoration works of the historic “Villa” and the surrounding gardens in order to use it as location for major events.