The Palazzina Marfisa d'Este in Ferrara is a typical Este residence and was built around 1559 by the will of Francesco d'Este, Marquis of Massalombarda, son of Duke Alfonso I and Lucrezia Borgia. Passed in 1578 as an inheritance to her daughter Marfisa, a lover of the arts and protector of the poet Torquato Tasso, she lived in the building until 1608, the year of his death, which marked the beginning of the slow deterioration of those courteous places. In 1938 the museum itinerary was inaugurated which, then as now, finds its strength in the sequence of grotesque decorated rooms and in the ancient furnishings in keeping with the noble typology of housing, in the garden and in the loggias conceived as not secondary but fundamental elements according to logic construction and distinctive aesthetic choices of the court places in the second half of the sixteenth century. The visit is very pleasant thanks above all to the perfect balance between the intimate setting and the spatiality of the exteriors that recreate the past of princely Ferrara in a suggestive synthesis. The noble Ferrarese residence of the sixteenth century, the first home of Marfisa d'Este, is now a museum that offers a path through rooms furnished with period furniture and furnishings. Friezes and grotesques characterize the ceilings with an extension and richness unique to Ferrara; it is a decorative harmony that extends to the monumental loggia and the garden grotto.