Its foundation, which popular tradition attributes to the Duchess of Tuscany Matilde of Canossa, is perhaps prior to the year 1000 and the bell tower already exists in 1028. In the 16th century the portico was built; the structure with raised presbytery and crypt underwent a first Latin cross transformation in 1631. To make the settlement even more imposing, the construction of the large villa that squeezes it on one side and belongs to the Guicciardini family also contributed. The interior, after the restoration of 1888, took on a decidedly nineteenth-century appearance. To remember the importance that the parish church had in the past, there remains a work attributed to Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio and a fifteenth-century tabernacle in stone carved with elegant friezes.
On December 27, 1999 an altarpiece attributed to Ghirlandaio, dating back to the fifteenth century, was recovered by the Carabinieri after three years of research. The work, which represents a Madonna of the Rosary with Child and Saints John and Augustine, was found in the shop of an antique dealer in the center of Florence; in 1946 it had been illegally sold by the local parish priest.
There is also an Annunciation by Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio.