People

The name Costantino Reyer is inextricably linked to the sports club, active since 1872, which won the Italian basketball championship in 2017 and 2019. A man of culture and heart who gave much to the world of sport and social work.

The name Pietro Gallo is often associated with that of Costantino Reyer, his inseparable friend. He was the founder of the 'Società di Ginnastica Costantino Reyer' as well as the promoter of sport and physical education in Venice.

A lover and scholar of things Venetian, writer, publisher, publicist journalist and organist, Eugenio Vittoria did his utmost to disseminate Venetian history and customs, also as a resource against Venice's declining population. This is why he…

Tommaso Giannotti, born in Ravenna in 1493, was a physician, astronomer and patron of the arts. In Venice, he contributed to public health, financed architectural works and promoted culture, leaving an important book heritage. He died in 1577,…

Don't be fooled by the name and birthplace of Jessie White, who, despite being born in England, is to be counted among the major contributors to the Italian Risorgimento. Jessie also married the Rovigo patriot Alberto Mario and was a friend and…

Luisa Baccara was born in Venice on 14 January 1892 into a wealthy and art-loving family: her father was a reserve colonel, her mother was a very beautiful, dark-haired and vivacious woman; her sister Jolanda, a few years younger, was to become a

Antonio Canova is known throughout the world as the greatest neoclassical sculptor of the late 18th and early 19th century.

Jacopo Negretti, known as Palma il Vecchio, was born in Val Brembana (Bergamo) to Antonio in about 1480. The date of the artist's birth is not certain and we can only surmise it from Vasari, who claims his death at the age of 48.

By many, he is considered the most prominent cultural worker of mid-sixteenth-century Venice. For his re-edition of Vitruvius' literary work De Architectura by Vitruvius, Barbaro was called the Architect of Knowledge.

In its over a thousand years, 120 Doges have alternated to the government of the Republic of San Marco who, with the institution of the Ducal Promission (1192) and from the end of the 13th century, were elected with a complicated procedure by the

He was 65 years old when he came to office (born November 16, 1436) and had made his fortune in trading.

He was born in 1419 and was 67 years old, the younger brother of the previous Doge Marco.