In his Storia del vicariato vicentino di Thiene, Maccà describes the villa as being found “in a place commonly known as the BRAGIO, on the road from Villaverla to Molina…”.
The place name BRAGIO is certainly very old, and is mentioned in a 1478 document with reference to the Vicenza Paiello family who rented out “arable farmland planted with vines and known as Bragio di Torrselle.”

Etymology

Bragio derives from the Lombard word “braida”, (similar to the German “breit”, namely “wide”), meaning extension, size, a name which originally meant an expanse of flat ground near the town and, later, a walled orchard and vineyard (G.B. Pellegrini, Toponomastica). “Braida” which entered Latin in the Middle Ages, was used for centuries, becoming “braia”, then “bragia” and finally the masculine BRAGLIO, which in old Vicenza dialect means an “enclosed place” (A. Prati, Etimologie venete).
Place names formed from “braida” are documented in Vicenza in the first centuries after 1000 AD, when the agricultural landscape required careful enclosure of the most valuable crops, especially vineyards and orchards.
The name remained in use for centuries, as long as there were the conditions for its survival, related to the importance of the place and the same families continuing to farm here.