The Palazzo Bernardo a San Polo, also known as the Giustinian Bernardo is a

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-style palace located between

Palazzo Querini Dubois The Palazzo Querini Dubois, also known as ''Giustinian Querini'' is a Renaissance architecture, Renaissance-style palace in located on the Grand Canal of Venice, Grand Canal, between the Palazzo Bernardo a San Polo and the Palazzo Grimani Marcello ...

and across the Rio del la Madoneta, Casa Sicher, on the Grand Canal in the

sestiere of San Polo San Polo ( vec, San Poło) is the smallest and most central of the six sestieri of Venice, northern Italy, covering 86 acres (35 hectares) along the Grand Canal. It is one of the oldest parts of the city, having been settled before ...

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, Italy.

History

It was built in the 14th century for the Bernardo family, a patrician family from Treviso, but putatively originally from Rome. A separate Palazzo Bernardo, near the Ponte Bernardo but also in San Polo, was acquired in the 16th century by the Celsi family. At this palace were housed Francesco Sforza and his wife, Bianca Visconti, during a grand state visit to Venice in May 1442. In 1532, the palace lodged Lorenzo Strozzi, who then hosted a Medici Cardinal in a feast. The palace was in the hands of the Bernardo till 1868. Curiosità veneziane, ovvero Origini delle denominazioni stradali di Venezia
by

Giuseppe Tassini Giuseppe Tassini (12 November 1827 - 22 December 1899) was an Italian historian and one of the most notable scholars of the toponymy of his birthplace of Venice. His most notable work was ''Curiosità Veneziane'', a minute toponymical study first p ...

, Venice (1872); page 74.

References

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