Santa Maria Novella Woody | Floral>Gelsomino

             This is the story of Cosimo III de’ Medici and of his dear “Stufa dei Mugherini”. The jasmine that struck the Granduca’s senses was of a special variety, that only his trusted botanics would perpetrate in the secret “Stufa dei Mugherini”, the warm greenhouse made for the Goa jasmines in the Villa Medicea di Castello.