Whenever I look at the portraits of these ancestors of mine, I feel proud to be somehow part of the history of the most incredible city man has ever dared to invent.
And I like to think that meeting this house was the completion of a journey that led me to rediscover a part of my roots.
I must say it was not difficult to hear the call of this place. And of the stories told by these walls.
Simple stories of daily life, of the people who worked here, of the barrels stored during the Napoleonic era, of the glass factory, of the fire that threatened the very existence of the building.
Stories that will certainly never end up in a book, but which, in their own way, are part of what contributed to building the eternal myth of the Serenissima.
Alvise Ranieri Tenti
Lorenzo Giustinian lived between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and was the first to bear the title of Patriarch of Venice. In 1690 he was proclaimed a saint by Pope Alexander VIII. He is, with St. Mark, the main patron saint of Venice.
Marcantonio Giustinian was the one hundred and seventh Doge of the Serenissima Republic of Venice. His election to the Doge's throne took place on the first ballot on the 26th of January 1684.