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Palazzina di Marfisa D’Este in Ferrara is a typical estense residence, which was built from  1559 at the behest of the Marquess Francesco, son of Alfonso I and of Lucrezia Borgia.
In 1578 it was handed down to the daughter Marfisa, passionate about arts and protectress of the poet Torquato Tasso, who lived there till 1608, when the degradation of those places started.
In 1861 the municipality gained their possess, giving life to a series of refurbishments, which were completed in 1938 with the opening of the museum route, whose main peculiarly is the passage through rooms decorated with grotesque and the original furniture typical of noble residences, through the garden and loggia.
The building’s façade on corso Giovecca is made of exposed bricks, with great-rectangular windows. The wide garden is now closed by a loggia with an interior decoration of vines, which was used as theatre, and the enjoyable settlement of the garden is created by the flowerings between Spring and Summer of numerous flowers and a border of French roses.
The area once used as boschetto, had already been substituted by a tennis club at the times of the refurbishment; the adjacent space to the Southern front was reorganised with two big flowerbeds and a 15^th century well, located in order to be visible from the entrance.

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