Between the Gothic of Palazzo Erizzo and the marble of Ca’ Vendramin Calergi, this 18th-century front seems almost shy: five arches over two orders, a double landing shore, a side that lets you glimpse the old verziere (orchard-garden). Yet here, in 1686, Benedetto Marcello was born — patrician, magistrate, and the musician his contemporaries called ’the prince of music’.