Villa Pisani at Stra, and the Pisani family of Venice
reference (encyclopaedic) · consulted 2026-07-29
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- Wikipedia: Villa Pisani, Stra; Pisani family; Alvise Pisani
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- 2026-07-29
The citation as it was given
Villa Pisani on the Brenta at Stra, built in the early 18th century for Alvise Pisani, 114th Doge of Venice (1735-41) - 114 rooms, one for each doge, and a Tiepolo ceiling. Sold to Napoleon in 1807 by the by-then impoverished family, then Habsburg, then Savoy, then the Italian state from 1882. Site of the first Hitler-Mussolini meeting in 1934. It stands today as a national museum taking about 150,000 visitors a year.
Kept verbatim. This project contradicts published genealogies and corrects a family's own oral tradition, so every claim has to be checkable by someone who was not in the room.