At the corner where the rii (small canals) of Santa Marina meet, the great Palazzo Marcello-Pindemonte-Papadopoli guards three centuries of patrician history in a single triple surname: here the Anzelieri, merchants come from Lucca, had put up the first house — Giovanni Marcello, the doge’s father, already lived there — and Doge Nicolò bought the plot in 1474, the last year of his dogate; in the 17th century the façade on the rio was redone in monumental forms attributed to Baldassare Longhena — or to Francesco Contin; in 1701 came the Pindemonte, a family of historians and poets, and in 1808 the Papadopoli, Greek bankers from Corfu who amassed a legendary library and print collection there.