The Early, Largely Ignored, Water-Moving Solution

Unfortunately, Agrippa’s wonderful plan for lifting water was not mentioned a lot after 1588, when Andrea Bacci praised it openly. Only years afterward, in 1592, the early modern Roman aqueduct, the Acqua Felice, was attached to the Medici’s villa, probably making the technology outdated. Though it is more very likely that it was simply tossed when Ferdinando ceded his cardinalship and moved back to Florence, ensuring his place as the Grand Duke of Tuscany, after the death of his brother, Francesco di Medici, in 1588. Renaissance gardens of the later part of the 16th century happened to be home to works like melodious water fountains, scenographic water displays and water caprices (giochi d’acqua), but these were not outfitted with water in Website ways which went against gravity itself.