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wheel, furnished with teeth, so fixed in it as to strike in due order the keys of the organ, and thus 

 produce the tune to which the wheel is set.' 



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From here the water rushes in a ceaseless torrent down a cascade to the series of pools 

 below, crossed only by the bridges forming the main ways through the garden. A very fine effect 

 is obtained by the great central alley, especially as seen from the principal entrance to the 

 garden (Plate 114). In the midst of the parterre is a small 'rond-point,' with high jets of ' 

 water springing from basins on the ground, and seats placed between, surrounded by some of 

 the most beautiful cypresses to be met with in Italy. 



The Villa d' Este has been frequently illustrated : by Duperac in 1573 ; ^ by Perelle and 

 Israel Sylvestre, about 1646; and also by Piranesi, who has devoted one of his most beautiful 

 plates ('Vcdute di Roma,' Plate 46) to a large engraving of the garden. The history of the villa 

 has been very completely written by F. S. Serri,^ who has gathered together a mass of useful 

 information and hitherto unpublished documents. 



' Stefano Duperac. Fues et Prospectives des Jardins de Tivoli, 1573. Dedicated to Catherine de' Urcdici. 

 2 La Villa d' Este in Tivoli. Francesco Saverino Serri. Roma, 1902. 



