It was the official newspaper of the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia (a domain of the Austrian Empire) from 1816 until 1859.

Its first editor was the Venetian author and critic Francesco Pezzi [it].

After his death in 1831, it was run for two years by his son, Giovanni Giacomo Pezzi (1805–1869) who went on to found the journal Glissons n'appuyons pas.

[1] With the annexation of Lombardy by the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1859, the Gazzetta ceased to be an official newspaper.

It was then run by a consortium of four of its writers which included the novelist and critic Giuseppe Rovani.