Palazzo Dandolo is a palace in Venice

Venice

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. Now it is home to the Hotel Danieli.

It was built in 1400, by one of the Dandolo

Dandolo

Dandolo is an Italian surname and may refer to*One of 3 Doges of Venice:**Enrico Dandolo, 41st Doge**Francesco Dandolo, 52nd Doge**Andrea Dandolo, 54th Doge*Two Risorgimento fighters**Enrico Dandolo **Emilio Dandolo...

 families, but whether by that of the great Doge

Doge of Venice

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, Enrico Dandolo

Enrico Dandolo

Enrico Dandolo — anglicised as Henry Dandolo and Latinized as Henricus Dandulus — was the 41st Doge of Venice from 1195 until his death...

, is not quite certain. In the Annali of Domenico Malipiero

Domenico Malipiero

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 which date from 1457 to 1500 is written that:

Today, the 28 August 1498, have arrived the Ambassadors of Florence

Florence

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, Rucellai and Vespucci

Vespucci

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; who are lodged in the Palazzo Dandolo, in the Calle delle Razze.

The Diary of Marin Sanudo

Marino Sanuto the Younger

----Marin Sanudo, italianised in Marino Sanuto or Sanuto the Younger was a Venetian historian.He was the son of the senator Leonardo Sanuto. Left an orphan at the age of ten, he lost his fortune owing to the bad management of his guardian, and was for many years hampered by want of means...

 reports that:

on the 7 April 1498 the Prince of Salerno came to Venice. A most brilliant reception was given him, great festas were held in his honour, and he, and his suite of forty-four persons were lodged in the Dandolo Palace of the Calle delle Razze.

The palace passed from the Dandolos to the Gritti family, in 1536, by a deed of sale. After the Dandolos and the Grittis, the Michiel, the Mocenigo and the Bernardo

Bernardo

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 families became its possessors by marriage, and they retained it till 1805, when its second floor was sold, by the noble Dame Helen Michiel, widow of Alvise Bernardo to Dal Niel. Dal Niel left it to his daughter Alfonsina Muzzarelli, who was able, in 1840 to buy the first floor from the noble Filippo Nani, the heir of the Mocenigos; and thus the whole building passed to her daughter Giuseppina Roux, and forms the present Hotel Royal Danieli.

The noteworthy Gothic door on the Calle delle Razze was originally the main entrance, and the one on the Riva degli Schiavoni has only been opened in recent years for the convenience of travellers.

External links

• A Summary History of the Palazzo Dandolo at the Project Gutenberg
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• A history of Palazzo Dandolo and Hotel Danieli in cosmopolis.ch