Collezione Acton - Villa La Pietra (in Italian). After unsuccessfully advertising the lease for continued use as a hotel, Henry Noble purchased the shares held by John Firth and set about turning the Villa Marina into his personal residence; although there was a level of consensus on the time that the property should have been bought and turned into a pleasure floor with a proposal put forward to raise £10,000 in £1 shares for the purchase. Jan Pieterszoon-Coen, the ruthless commander of the VOC...