THE BOBOLI GARDEN, FLORENCE 
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Alderman Beckford, the eccentric antiquary and builder of Fonthill, in Wiltshire, writing 
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, 
