Palazzo Contarini-Sceriman, Venice

In 1628, Contarina Contarini, married to Piero Priuli, sold the palace to Alberto Gozzi, a silk merchant.

It was near this palace and the nearby bridge that, around 1675, the aristocrat Leonardo Loredan, descendant of a Doge, was found dead in a boat.

The palace housed for a time the Accademia degli Industriosi, a salon of literature and debate, until it moved to the academy of industrious, before conveyed in Cà Morosini in San Canciano.

Stefano had been awarded Roman citizenship by Pope Innocent XII, and was named Count of Hungary by Emperor Leopold I.

[1] The palace has undergone a number of reconstructions, leading to an eclectic combination of various styles, including Venetian Gothic.