Palazzo Barbarigo Nani Mocenigo is a palace in Venice, located in the Dorsoduro district, along the Fondamenta Nani on the Rio San Trovaso, near the square of the same name.
The building dates back to the fifteenth century and was the
residence of the Barbarigo family.
It was part of her dowry that
Elena Barbarigo, daughter of Doge Agostino, brought to her husband
Giorgio Nani. From these it passed to his son Bernardo, progenitor of
the family branch known as "di San Trovaso".
In the first half of
the 19th century the Dwarfs "of San Trovaso" died out and the complex
became the home of distant relatives Nani Mocenigo who previously lived
in a building on the foundations of Cannaregio.
Part of the
building still belongs to this family, while the remainder was purchased
by the Ca' Foscari University which made it the seat of the "Department
of Italian Studies", with an annexed library. Since 2007, the humanities
center of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy has been concentrated in
Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà and the building has remained empty, sometimes
being rented out to "high-end" tourists.
The palace is a perfect example of a building in the fourteenth and
fifteenth century Venetian Gothic style, according to an approach that
has its apex in Ca' Bernardo.
The facade, on three levels with a
mezzanine, on the ground floor opens through two Gothic portals, one in
the center and one, smaller, on the left. The two noble floors have,
centered between two pairs of ogival single-lancet windows, two
superimposed four-light windows with balustrades.
On the right
side of the roof there is a terrace, with a view of San Trovaso and the
Giudecca Canal area.