Only recently, Este's world has come back to life at night. I think that if Cardinal Ippolito d'Este and his associate, Pirro Ligorio, two of the greatest garden geniuses of all time, were able to return to Earth, they would be convinced by the extent of the genius of electricity.
At Este, they would thus discover a miraculous second Renaissance which would delight them.

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