In 1435 Angelus Iacopo Bianciardi da Sommavilla purchased a Palace from the (which is, today, the oldest of all the families that formed the Florentine aristocracy and is one of the few still flourishing of feudal origin) in Castellina in Chianti, still today completely existing, the Palace became the family symbol starting from 1719 as "Casa Bianciardi" (today known as "Palazzo Bianciardi").