Palazzo Maldura is a

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civilian building, now the home of the Department of Language Studies and Literature at the

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. Built in the sixteenth century and overhauled, it was upgraded in 1769 and commissioned by lawyer Andrea Maldura (1730-1802) to architect Giovan Battista Novello. In the palace there are numerous

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es in a non-homogeneous order with respect to the location of the different premises.

Notes

* Giuseppe Pavanello Pavanello, Venetian Art XXIX, p. 262-268.

References

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