ABSTRACT
Grand Duke Ferdinando III was fortunate enough to live to see his visions for the beloved patria begin to come to pass and against all conceivable odds take tenuous hold in the new post-Napoleonic age. It is perhaps more difficult to maintain an ideal society than it is to establish one in the first place, but since Florentine Enlightenment culture had not been completely destroyed, only temporarily suppressed during the years of French domination, Florence quickly responded to its restored order. Over the years a continued, significant increase in the number of carriages is to be seen promenading throughout the city, but especially in the Cascine during this particular season of the year. The Florence that emerges from such explorations and reappraisals shows herself to be the remarkable entity that she has always been and continually strives to remain, 'an earthly paradise' of infinitely rewarding dimensions.
