Palazzetto Pisani is a palace in Venice, located in the San Marco district. Overlooking the Grand Canal, near the Accademia Bridge and Campo Santo Stefano, it rises between Rio Santissimo or Santo Stefano and the eighteenth-century Palazzo Benzon Foscolo, opposite Campo San Vio.
It was purchased in 1751 by Andrea Pisani (rectius Almorò 1st Alvise Andrea) from the Marquis Giovanni Poleni, mathematical physicist and astronomer of the University of Padua, in order to allow the Pisani family - already owners of the grandiose Palazzo Pisani di Santo Stefano built around 1615 - to overlook the Grand Canal. On this occasion, the wall that separated it from the main residence was demolished and the two buildings were joined, but this arrangement only lasted a few years. Already in 1816 the residence was purchased by Carlo Felice of Savoy, Duke of Genoa at the time, and then passed in 1945 to Count Leonardo De Lazara, who oversaw its restoration.
It is a building of traditional shapes and marked elegance, which acts as an outpost to the imposing body of Palazzo Pisani di Santo Stefano to which it is joined. In the facade it denounces late sixteenth-century or, alternatively, seventeenth-century origins. The facade, which develops over four levels, with a noble floor between two mezzanines, is characterized by the presence of pairs of mullioned windows, according to a scheme also used in Palazzo Giustinian Bernardo. Characteristic elements are also the presence of a coat of arms, string courses in Istrian stone and the stone portal, which however has only a decorative function, given that access to the Palace is not from the main waterway of the city, but from Calle del Pisani Portico.