Everything was accomplished here, in this final act. I lived an extraordinary life, and this is my gift to Vicenza, to its families, to...

The palace of one of the apostolic families of Venice, inside a huge park full of water, was built over the centuries, well beyond my...

Cavalier Bonifacio Pojana was a worthy heir to his family: a strong man of arms, with a beard that framed a powerful jaw, eyes wide and...

Leonardo, son of my friend Giovanni Alvise Valmarana and his very noble wife Isabella Nogarole, on the occasion of the death of his...

Girolamo Forni was another of mine - not many to tell the truth - bourgeois clients.​ Like the notary Cogollo for example, for whom I had...

Now old, now "Venetian", in front of my Basilica under construction, I have the task of building the Loggia del Capitanio. Venice facing...

For the very rich congregation of the Benedictines of Venice I first created a succession of portals and huge barrel-vaulted spaces, in a...

Not my villa, of course, but the place where my life changed.​ I was working on an extraordinary construction site for me, that of the...

For almost everyone, my greatest masterpiece. Thanks to the freedom granted to me by Paolo Almerico, in fact I was able to create a pure...

I had learned in Rome that there was not always a need for great ornamentation and pomp for an architecture to be harmonious and...

Discovering the wonders to the south of Lake Garda, Pindemonte regenerated his poetics. The poet Ippolito Pindemonte actually stayed at...

The Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, inaugurated in 1585, is considered the first great theatre built since antiquity and the first permanent...

Francesco Aviani was a painter born in Venice but who had his most prosperous career in the Vicenza area, particularly as a fresco...

The most important and fascinating spiritual retreat of the Euganean mountains is located at its foot and dates back to the 11th century....

Together with Giovanni Bellini and Vittore Carpaccio, Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano was one of the great painters active in the...

To understand who Goldoni was, let's start by saying that he began as a child to play with puppets, that he greatly admired Molière and...

It is evident that, first of all for us, Giangiorgio Trissino is Andrea Palladio's mentor, in a certain sense his creator. In a broader...

Italian chef, philosopher and man of letters, Vincenzo Corrado lived between the 18th and 19th centuries as the 'Head of Mouth Services'...

The Fondaco dei Tedeschi is more than five hundred years old and is in its third or fourth life. But what exactly is the Fondaco? It was...

Antonio Fogazzaro studied in Turin. In his youth he lived first in Turin, where he graduated in law, then in Milan, where he came into...