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In 1778 at Nieborów, five kilometres from her palace, Helena Radziwillowa (1753-1821) had a landscape park in the English taste made for her which she called Arcadia. The park was based on the Attic myth popularized by Virgil, revived in the Renaissance period by Tasso and Ariosto, and widespread in the English literature and parks of the late 18th century. Radziwillowa assumed the name of Armida,...