The Girl from Venice is a 2016 historical fiction novel by American author Martin Cruz Smith.

The novel details the encounter and subsequent relationship between Innocenzo (Cenzo) Vianello, a fisherman from Pellestrina, and Giulia Silber, daughter of a wealthy Jewish family from Venice, and is set in early 1945.

The novel takes place during the weeks before the collapse of the Republic of Salò and the death of Benito Mussolini.

Giulia had been hiding with her family in a hospital, but their location and identity were betrayed, and she swims the Venetian Lagoon to escape.

[2] However, Charles Finch, writing for The New York Times, called it "very, very bad" and full of Hemingway-like clichés about war: "every gesture of midcentury Romanticism in 'The Girl From Venice' is a received one, repackaged and presented as the most profound wisdom".