Palazzo Bolani Erizzo is an ancient Venetian palace from the 13th century, built along the Grand Canal in the Cannaregio district.
The 13th-century palace was the home of the poet Pietro Aretino in
the 16th century. The Levi family bought the property in the early 17th
century.
After the First World War, the civil engineer Gino
Vittorio Ravà lived there, who built the Ponte degli Scalzi and invented
a restoration method using hydraulic jacks.
During the Second
World War, the palace was briefly rented to the poet Filippo Tommaso
Marinetti, who founded the Associazione futurista Cannaregio 5662 in
1944.
The four-story palace with a very narrow facade facing the Grand
Canal has only one triple arched window on each of the two main floors.
On the first floor there is a balcony in front of it, on the second
floor there are only small window bars.
The ground floor has a
round-arched portal to the water with a keystone on the left, which is
adjoined by two small rectangular windows on the right. All arched
openings and the lower part of the ground floor show Istrian limestone
surfaces.
On the third floor there are four rectangular windows
with a balcony in front. While the two middle ones share a balcony with
iron railings, the two outer windows each have their own balcony.
Panorama from a window of the palace
According to E. Fahy, an oil
painting by Francesco Guardi entitled Canal Grande e ponte di Rialto[2]
shows a Venetian panorama as seen from a window on the first floor of
this palace.