S.Stefano, although it is now so easily overlooked, was of importance in its day, and it was here that Niccolo da Uzzano, the leader of the nobles, held a meeting to devise means of checking the growing power of the people early in the fifteenth century and was thwarted by old Giovanni de' Medici.

From that thwarting proceeded the power of the Medici family and the gloriously endowed Florence that we travel to see..