«The choice of this Florentine family as caretakers of the great panel he perhaps intended to complete later is an indication of the familiarity and friendship that existed between Leonardo and the Benci del Sanna family, who where among the most important citizens of the Santa Croce quarter. […] they where also clients of Leonardo's father, who was trustee of legal documents for Bartolomeo, Niccolò, Donato, Amerigo, and Francesco – sons of Giovanni di Amerigo Benci (1394–mid-july 1455). […] Amerigo di Giovanni and his brother Francesco […] settled in Florence in the parish of San Jacopo fra' Fossi, in the Gonfalone Lion Nero of the Santa Croce quarter […] In 1469 and 1480 Giovanni was living in the two aforementioned houses with the various members of his entourage, that is, his mother Mona Antonia di Lorenzo Cresci (ca. 1438–1484); his brother Carlo (b.1458); his sister(s) Ginevra (1457–by 1521) […]»