THE BOBOLI GARDEN, FLORENCE 



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THE BOBOLI GARDEN ^ pran of i/le ISOWTTO. 



Alderman Beckford, the eccentric antiquary and builder of Fonthill, in Wiltshire, writing 



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from Florence, September 14, 1780, thus describes his visit to the Boboli Garden: 'I walked to 

 one of the bridges across the Arno, and thence to the Garden of Boboli, which lies behind 

 the Grand Duke's palace, stretched out on the side of a mountain. I ascended terrace after terrace, 



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