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It is not until the Renaissance, however, that we see cotto as protagonist of the well-balanced splendour of villas and palaces where the idea of man as centre of the universe was expressed. With the waning of this period, cotto was gradually neglected and in time became part of rural culture. raised floor It entered those homes which, together with the hills and cypress trees, give the Tuscan countryside its unique beauty. Rural Tuscan culture, which included the master's home, entrusted cotto with very important tasks: those of roofing and flooring the house, of decorating it, of protecting the good quality of oil.
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