Palazzo Bellavite
Palazzo Bellavite is a 16th-century Venetian palace tied to two literary households and a merchant’s ambition. It was commissioned in the early 16th century by Dionisio Bellavite, a wealthy flour and oil merchant, built on the site of the old bell tower of the church of San Maurizio. The façade was originally painted by Paolo Veronese, though no traces of that painting remain. For a long stretch of its life, the building was known as Casa Baffo. The last Baffo family member, the poet Giorgio Baffo, lived here until his death in 1768, and his name—along with Alessandro Manzoni’s—appears on two stone plaques on the façade. Manzoni lived in the palazzo in 1803–1804. Architecturally, the palace rises in four levels, with the two “noble” middle floors marked by serlianas flanked by pairs of single-light windows. …
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