Palazzo Dario (Ca' Dario), facing the façade, is distinguished by its carved round windows and the multicolored marble of the façade. The palace was designed by Lombardo in the early Renaissance style in 1487.
Terrible legends are associated with this palace. Originally built for the ambassador of Venice in Constantinople in 1487. His daughter, son-in-law and several other owners died. One of the subsequent owners - an English scientist - committed suicide, having gone bankrupt on the reconstruction of the palace. The editor-in-chief of Who magazine was assassinated; a certain count in 1979 encountered a candelabrum thrown by his mistress. The last owner, the richest Italian industrialist, was found dead in Milan (1993) after a corruption scandal broke out.
The plaque says that in 1899-1911 the Frenchman Henri de Regnier "lived and wrote in a very Venetian way" here; it was Renier's novels (translated by Kuzmin) that at one time inspired the young Leningrader Brodsky to dream of Venice.
The palace is also famous for the fact that one of the weddings of the famous film director Woody Allen took place here. He even intended to buy a palazzo, but changed his mind.
In 2005, the German writer Petra Reske published the best-selling book "Palazzo Dario".
The most beautiful palace of Ca Dario, which was painted by Claude Monet himself, is considered the most sinister place in Venice. The fame of the “cursed old house” was firmly entrenched behind it, because according to various estimates, about nine owners of the old palazzo died under strange, if not ominous, circumstances. In today's material: history, mysticism and a little skepticism. Let's start with the facts.
HISTORY OF THE CURSED PALACE
Palazzo Ca Dario was built in 1487 by the architect Pietro Lombardo, commissioned by the noble citizen Giovanni Dario. Dario in the capital of the Most Serene Republic was considered a respected person. He was both a merchant and a notary, moreover, Giovanni even managed to conclude a peace agreement with the Turks, for which the Venetians awarded him the honorary title "Savior of the Motherland". It is curious that Dario built the palazzo named after him not for himself, but for his daughter Marietta. The palace was intended for her as a wedding gift - the girl was engaged to a wealthy spice merchant Vincenzo Barbaro. In 1494, Dario passed away, and the palazzo became the property of the Barbaro family. It was then that the very horrors and nightmares began, because of which the palace received the nickname maledetto which means "damned".
At first, Vincenzo went bankrupt, and then he was killed by a knife. Soon his wife Marietta also died: according to one version, the girl committed suicide, and according to the second, she died of a heart attack. Their son, Giacomo, also soon died, however, this happened not in Venice, but in Crete, where he was ambushed. However, a noble Venetian family owned the palazzo until the 19th century, when Alessandro Barbaro managed to sell the ill-fated palace to Arbit Abdoll, an Armenian jewelery merchant. The new owner of Ka-Dario, one might say, was lucky. He simply went bankrupt, but survived, only Abdollah's palazzo still had to be sold, and at a penny price - only 480 pounds.
The next owner of Ka-Dariyo was the Englishman Roundon Brown. The palace passed into his ownership in 1838, but Brown never settled in the chambers of the Palazzo - he simply did not find the funds for a large-scale reconstruction of the dilapidated building. Then Ka-Darijo again changed hands several times: first it was bought by a Hungarian count, then by a rich Irishman named Marshal, but only the Duchess Isabelle Gontran de la Baum-Pluvinel became a truly full mistress of the palace. She completely restored the interiors of the palazzo, however, many close associates of Her Grace sarcastically noticed that the duchess was too fond of embellishment, which is why the halls and rooms of Ca-Dario began to look clumsy. Nevertheless, Isabelle lived here for a long time and must have been happy, because, according to the Venetians, the spirits of Ca-Dario appreciated the caring attitude of the aristocrat towards their permanent abode. It is known that the duchess also hosted the poet Henri de Regnier, however, the minister of the muses in the palazzo was desperately unwell, he was even forced to leave the city ahead of schedule, but here, as they say, the eternal Venetian dampness can be to blame, and not some evil machinations of otherworldly forces.
The next owner of the accursed palace was the American millionaire Charles Briggs. He also failed to live for his own pleasure in the palazzo. The fact is that the Venetians quickly discovered one juicy aspect of the millionaire's personal life - he was gay. Due to accusations of homosexuality, Briggs, along with his lover, was forced to flee the city. The couple traveled to Mexico, where Charles' lover soon committed suicide. Of course, many immediately saw in this circumstance an ominous trace of Ka-Dariyo.
For a long time the palace was empty, until in 1964 the operatic tenor Mario Del Monaco paid attention to it. He had already begun negotiations on the purchase of the palazzo, but did not have time to complete his plans - on the way to Venice, Mario had a serious car accident. The singer spent a long time in the hospital, after which he decided to stay away from sin, and at the same time away from the terrible palazzo. The next owner of Ca Dario was Filippo Giordano delle Lanze, a count from Turin. Already in 1970, he was killed within the walls of the palazzo by a Croatian sailor named Raul, with whom, according to rumors, the aristocrat had a close relationship. Meanwhile, Raul himself was also soon killed in London, where he fled from Venice.
next stage scary story Ca Dario can be commented on as sexs drugs and rock and roll, because the next owner of the palace was not anyone, but Christopher "Kit" Lambert from The Who. Keith complained that it was absolutely impossible to sleep in the palace, because ghosts roamed the halls at night. I must say, the spirits turned out to be so arrogant and annoying that Lambert soon began to spend the night either in the gondoliers booth or in a hotel located next to the palace. However, only a completely naive and pure-hearted person can unconditionally believe Keith's testimonies. It's no secret that Lambert loved to experiment with all sorts of banned substances. For this reason, the owners of many hotels refused to provide him with a room, and the members of The Who broke off relations with Keith because of his addictions, which were too harmful even for a rock and roll player.
But the Venetian businessman Fabrizio Ferrari, to whom Lambert sold the ill-fated palace three years before his death in 1978, was not seen to be addicted to psychotropic substances. But Ka-Dariyo did not spare him either. Initially, sister Fabrizio Nicoletta, who also lived in the palazzo, died in an accident that occurred under unclear circumstances - not a single witness to the accident was found. Then Fabrizio went bankrupt, and soon he was arrested on charges of beating a model. The last tragic case associated with Ka-Dariyo occurred in 1993. The new owner of the palazzo, financier Raul Gardini, committed suicide. The reason is the financial collapse, coupled with a corruption scandal in which the businessman was involved.
WHAT DO THE MYSTICS SAY?
Naturally, lovers of mysticism have spent a lot of effort to find out why the Palazzo Ca Dario is ruining its owners. Magicians and sorcerers never came to a common conclusion. Some argue that the palace was cursed by the Templars, they say, it was built on the site of the old cemetery of the Knights of the Cross. It is worth noting that the Templars in Venice, however, were noted, so in 1293 they, together with the Venetians, equipped galleys in the capital of the Holy Republic in order to protect Cyprus from the Muslims.
According to the second version, the root of evil is in an anagram in Latin, which can be found on the facade of the palace. In fact, she is a completely harmless VRBIS GENIO IOANNES DARIVS, which means only "honorary citizen Giovanni Dario." But the mystics noticed that if you rearrange the letters, the inscription will turn into SVB RVINA INSIDIOSA GENERO, which can be translated as "under it I create bloody ruins." Well, how not to panic!
AND A LITTLE HEALTHY SKEPTICISM
To this day, the Venetians believe that the ghosts of all the owners of the Palazzo Ca Dario live within the walls of the building, and therefore they try to stay as far away from the accursed palace as possible. However, if we engage in unemotional arithmetic calculations, we will find the following. The palace is already more than 530 years old, and nine terrible deaths in such a period are not the most monstrous statistics. Simply, the fact is that people naturally “avoid repetitions”, therefore, if the same situation is repeated several times, which, according to the theory of probability, is just nothing unusual, a person begins to see in these facts the influence of powerful higher forces. It's especially bright this feature our psyche manifests itself precisely in cases with tragic stories, which is why many sincerely believe in various corruption and curses.
Second moment. For a long time, the Venetians believed that the palace especially did not like financiers and merchants, they say they work with money, so the spirits of the palazzo punish them. But, if you look impartially at all the stories described above, then in each individual case the result was more than logical: here, rather, the causes were confused with the consequences. And there is nothing strange in the fact that entrepreneurs often go bankrupt, as you know, out of 100 projects, only 20 become successful - and this is the most positive statistics.
In a word, the Palazzo Ca Dario is not as scary as it is painted. Or is it still scary? A well-known fact: at low tide in the Grand Canal, the halls of the palace, for some unknown reason, can be filled with stinking water. Venice plumbers have spent a lot of time trying to figure out why this is happening, but have not found an answer. In a word, even if you do not believe in ghosts and curses, living in a palace built in the 15th century by order of Giovanni Dario is a very dubious pleasure. Superstitious people should avoid this place!
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Ca' Dario, also known as Palazzo Dario, is one of the palaces of Venice, standing on the banks of the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro quarter at the mouth of the Rio delle Torreselle. One of its facades faces the canal, and the other faces Piazza Campiello Barbaro. Opposite is the marina of Santa Maria de Guillo.
Ca' Dario was built in 1487 in the then popular Venetian Gothic style, and since then its mosaic facade, made of colored marble, has always attracted the eyes of passers-by. The house itself is an excellent example of Renaissance architecture. It got its name from Giovanni Dario, secretary of the Senate of Venice, diplomat and merchant. After the death of Dario, the palace became the property of his daughter Marietta, who married Vincenzo Barbaro, the son of the owner of the nearby Palazzo Barbaro. Subsequently, the Venetian Senate occasionally rented the Palazzo to accommodate Turkish diplomats.
As mentioned above, one of the facades of Ca' Dario overlooks the small Campiello Barbaro square, named after the aristocratic Barbaro family. This façade is notable for its Gothic arches. At the end of the 19th century, when the Palazzo belonged to the French aristocrat and writer Comtesse de la Baume-Pluvinel, a large-scale restoration was carried out in it. The countess herself surrounded herself with French and Venetian writers, one of whom, Henri de Regnier, is immortalized in an inscription on the wall in the garden: “The French poet Henri de Regnier lived and wrote in this antique house in 1899-1901.” It was on the initiative of the countess that a staircase was built in Ca’ Dario, made external chimneys and stoves lined with majolica. And in the dining room on the second floor overlooking the garden, graceful carved decorations appeared.
In 1908, the great Claude Monet depicted the Palazzo Dario on his canvas - today this picture is kept at the Art Institute in Chicago. And at the end of the 20th century, the wedding of the famous Hollywood director Woody Allen took place here. The building itself is now privately owned and is usually closed to the public. However, according to an agreement between the owner of the Palazzo and the Peggy Guggenheim Collections Art Museum in Venice, special cultural events are occasionally held in it.
I must say that Ca' Dario has the glory of a cursed house. Its owners repeatedly committed suicide, went bankrupt or became victims of accidents. For example, Marietta, daughter of Giovanni Dario, committed suicide after her husband Vincenzo Barbaro went bankrupt and he himself was stabbed to death. Their son tragically died in Crete. At the beginning of the 19th century, the Palazzo was bought out by the Armenian merchant Arbit Abdoll, who went bankrupt shortly after the acquisition. The next owner of the building, the Englishman Redon Brown, also committed suicide. Another owner of the Palazzo, American Charles Briggs, was forced to flee from Venice to Mexico due to accusations of homosexuality, and already there his lover shot himself. In 1970, the Turin Count Filippo Giordano delle Lanze was killed in the courtyard, and a couple of years later, the next owner of Ca' Dario, Keith Lambert, tragically died (fell down the stairs). The last tragedy took place in 1993, when one of the richest industrialists in Italy, who was involved in a corruption scandal, shot himself.
Venice is an amazingly multifaceted city, rich in its history, which has known ups and downs. Among all this, there was a place and history of the accursed Palazzo Dario. The story is so famous that the artist Claude Monet was interested in it, venerable writers devoted their works ... But I did not hear the clues to this story. Maybe you know her? In the information flow, it is not surprising to miss a lot. In the meantime - a story about what cast such a gloomy shadow on one of the most unusual palazzos in Venice.
Almost no building in Venice was mentioned in the detectives of Donna Leon, including the Palazzo Dario:
Brunetti stood in the same place for a minute, then went to one of the windows and lifted the curtain. The Grand Canal stretched below, the sun gleamed on the water, reflected on the walls of the Palazzo Dario located to the left; the golden tiles that made up the mosaic on the facade of the palace caught the light emanating from the water; breaking up into many sparks, he again rushed down to the canal. Boats sailed past, time passed.
Donna Leon, Venetian Counting
Small red dot on the map - Palazzo Dario:
First a note from the wiki:
Ca "Dario or Palazzo Dario (Italian: Ca" Dario, Palazzo Dario) is a palace in Venice, in the Dorsoduro district. One side overlooks the Grand Canal, the other - Barbaro Square. Opposite the palace is the marina of Santa Maria de Guillo. The palace is a magnificent example of Renaissance architecture. The mosaic facade made of colored marble attracts attention. The palace was built in 1487. Among the owners of the mansion was the French poet Henri de Regnier, who lived here at the end of the 19th century. The palace is also famous for the fact that one of the weddings of the famous film director Woody Allen took place here. The palace has the notoriety of being a cursed house. The owners of the mansion were repeatedly abused, became bankrupt or suicidal. last death occurred in 1993, when one of the richest Italian industrialists shot himself here after a corruption scandal erupted. In 2005, the German writer Petra Reske published the best-selling book "Palazzo Dario".
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Here are quotes from the mentioned book by Petra Reska (slightly abridged and highlighted in blue) and we will continue the story about the Palazzo Dario. I will add my notes to quotes in black.
“More precisely, they call it Ka Dario,” said Wanda's companion. - Previously, all the palaces in Venice were called "Ca", from casa, and only the Doge's Palace was called a palazzo, Palazzo Ducale. But today things are looked at more broadly. You are surprised signorina, aren't you? Yes, there are many things that foreigners do not know. Imagine, an American woman recently asked me why the city is so flooded with water. I answered her: "Signora, this is how we wash the streets."
On the map in the center you can see a small palazzo Dario and other palazzos nearby:
Reska's book details the curse of the palazzo and how it affected its inhabitants. Here are just a few brief references:
"I mean the curse," he replied, somewhat annoyed that she had interrupted him. “The palazzo where your uncle lives brings misfortune. Many Venetians say that Palazzo Dario especially does not like businessmen, businessmen, and, on the contrary, saves artists. We Venetians always try to find a pattern in everything. But here she is not. Massimo Miniato was, for example, a businessman and still survived in this palace. And the antiques dealer Fabio delle Fenestrelle, on the contrary, in my opinion, was more related to artists. The only regularity that I see here is that misfortune, like powdery mildew, falls on each of its inhabitants. Very few survived and left the palace themselves.
- The first inhabitant of Ca Dario, as far as I remember, was an American, Robert Baulder. After him was Fabio delle Fenestrelle. He ran an antique shop. After him was a hippie, Mick Swinton, he was the manager of the rock band What. Then Massimo Miniato Sassoferato, the financier, as he called himself, whatever that means. And then Aldo Vergato. The richest man in Italy. Of course, you have heard of him. Even Ka Dario did not bring happiness to him, that's for sure. Oh yes, I must have forgotten to mention that none of them survived at the Palazzo Dario. That is, there was one who survived, but he was not lucky either. And these are only those who have lived there in the last fifty years. If you think about the fact that the palazzo is already more than five hundred years old, who knows what scenes were played there that we know nothing about.
“In Ca Dario,” replied the gentleman, “something was always celebrated, at all times. I think there is hardly any other palazzo in which they had so much fun. In the days of Mick Swinton and the Miniato, parties rumbled one after another. “Kilograms of cocaine. It wasn't holidays, it was orgies." “Bras and panties just flew out of the windows,” said taxi drivers who were forced to stand down at the pier all night long.
– In the days of Vergato, it was calm in Ca Dario. And after his death, the house was empty for quite a long time, no one dared to buy it, although the price was quite bearable. In my opinion, at first this American, the director, became interested in him. He just had a burning desire, still, ten billion for a Renaissance palazzo on the world-famous Grand Canal - it's just a gift. He always comes to Venice with his wife on New Year's Eve and stays at the Hotel Gritti, just opposite the Ca Dario. Perhaps one day at breakfast he looked at the house and calculated how many nights he would have to spend in Venice to justify the ten billion. And with such prices as in the Gritti Hotel, these nights would not be so many. There, the rent of one suite costs a million, that is, the cost of almost ten thousand nights in Ca Dario. And if he were destined to spend them there, they would fly by in thirty years, which for a city like Venice is tantamount to a flap of a wing. However, he refused the deal. They say he learned about the curse of the palazzo.
All his life, Baulder dreamed of settling on the world-famous Grand Canal in Venice. He knew that many famous singers, composers, artists, writers and poets lived in the fashionable palazzos of the world-famous Grand Canal: Hemingway and Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hoffmannstel and Marcel Proust, and even the Queen Mother herself. He bought the Palazzo Dario from a mysterious fellow whom he had seen only twice in his life at the Café Florian. This guy's eyes burned like coals. He offered his empty palace at a ridiculous price. Baulder, who never turned down a good deal, accepted without hesitation. Did he then assume that by making this deal, he thereby handed over his soul to the dark force?
People like Robert Baulder are hardly ever sensitive to such sensations. And even more so, Americans, unlike Europeans, are completely unreceptive to spiritualistic phenomena. If a mysterious man with glowing eyes had told Baulder that the Palazzo Dario was under a curse that cost the lives of all its former owners, he would have laughed in response. Perhaps he might have been impressed by the accident that happened to Mario del Monaco, the famous tenor, after he negotiated a price with a mysterious man and signed a contract to purchase the ill-fated palace. On the way back to Treviso, the singer's elegant limousine overturned, and, still recovering from terrible injuries, he canceled the purchase of Ca Dario.
Boulder, however, took possession of the Palazzo Dario with complete confidence. After stormily celebrating the signing of the purchase agreement at the Café Florian, he boarded a gondola on St. Mark's Quay. The moon, making its night round, entailed a plume of a light path along the water of the world-famous Grand Canal. A ghostly radiance trailed like a shroud over the Palazzo Dario, but Baulder didn't feel the cold fingers of the curse touch him.
- Stunning Venetian light! he sighed as the gondolier rowed steadily through the black water of the world-famous Grand Canal.
The boy's heart skipped a beat as Boulder promptly invited him to dinner at the Palazzo Dario.
After a while they entered the palace through the wrought iron gates. Boulder leaned his shoulder against the heavy oak door, and Girolamo found himself in a room with a cool white marble floor bathed in soft, warm amber light from tall candles. There were old musical instruments: harps, cembalos, lyres and spinets.
- Are you into music? whispered Girolamo.
"No," Boulder replied, and smiled with some contempt. - It was Juan who wanted to furnish the salon with musical instruments.
He then took him around the palace and even showed him the "luxurious" bathroom, noting the delight with which Girolamo examined the bidet made from a single piece of marble. In the salon, the boy especially liked the tiger skins with tan marks, and in the hallway, the small marble children's sarcophagi scared him to death.
"Oh, they're just hat stands," Boulder smiled, noticing that the boy was frightened.
On the theme of the interiors and exterior of the palazzo:
Among their rivals, challenging each other on the world-famous Grand Canal, Palazzo Dario looked exhausted. Embodied yellow-gray fragility. A house of cards that only holds up because its base is wider than the upper floors. it seemed that it was enough just to touch a small piece of its marble, as the whole palace silently folded and collapsed into the world-famous Grand Canal. On the plinth of the palace was engraved GENIO URBIS JOANNES DARIO - "Giovanni Dario - the genius of the city." Higher up were three narrow, pointed-vaulted windows, clad in triple bars, as if they were meant to protect the harem. The marble façade was adorned with green granite and red porphyry medallions, reflecting the painted, made-up face of the palace in the water.
But even this beautiful mask could not hide the conspicuous thinness, although it set off all three floors - two piano nobile, aristocratic floors, conceived for inspection, and not as housing, and a modest, reserved upper floor. The palazzo stretched coyly and swaggered in all its appearance, but separately each floor was nothing more than an imposing salon. On the ground floor was the Mohamed Salon, named after Sultan Mohamed II, to whom the architect Giovanni Dario owed his fame and fortune.
On the second floor there was a pink salon. Next to it was a library, a luxurious bathroom, a bedroom, small guest rooms and storage closets.
It was cold, damp and dark within the walls of the palace pier. entire generations of Venetian architecture students devoted their thesis to these late medieval and Renaissance marble arches, vaults and columns of marinas and wharfs.
The marble vaults were washed away by the tides, and they were completely covered with pockmarks and crevices from endless flooding. On the quay of Sopraport, two marble figurines of boys whose foreskin had been gnawed off by the water held the turquoise-white striped coat of arms of the Dario family. Everything that was once beautiful in them crumbled and disappeared: limbs, curls, noses - now the salt was already biting into their faces. One of them had such a gaping cavity in the lower part of his face, as if he had leprosy.
Up the stairs to the second floor. The hallway was adorned with gilded plaster rosettes, examples of eerie rococo. But what can you do? For five centuries, the palazzo digested all its inhabitants, calmly and silently.
Some of them believed that they could express themselves by constructing a marble fountain, the other tried to embody their creative impulses in equipping the palace with a kitchen elevator to deliver food to the upper floors.
But what all its inhabitants valued as the individuality of the house - the white and gold tile stoves of the Rococo era and the ceilings decorated with plaster rosettes - was nothing more than a worthless tinsel decoration, which, however, could not spoil the true originality and individuality of the Palazzo. Dario.
Of the three floors of the Palazzo, Radomir mostly occupied only the third. On the second floor, that is, the first of the piano nobile, one could only live in the summer. Sovraintendenza, the Office for the Preservation of Monuments, forbade the heating of this salon in order to preserve the unique examples of stucco work in it. So the furniture on the second floor lay dormant during the winter months under white sheets. Radomir opened this piano nobile only in exceptional cases, for example, when he received photographers from publishing houses that produce albums in Venice, of course, for some monetary compensation.
He didn't care which album the photos of his palace appeared in: "Life in Venice", "Venetian Palazzos", "Palazzo of the world-famous Grand Canal" - Radomir and his Palazzo Dario should have appeared in any of them: Palazzo Dario - view from water; Palazzo Dario - view from the garden; detail of a marble fountain at the entrance; fountain on the second floor; luxury bathroom on the third floor.
Second floor. The window panes, cast with a generous dose of lead, painted the interior a bright pink.
The pink saloon was crammed with furniture, from which, until now, only the Empire style couch could be used. Everything else—slender-legged chairs, chests, cupboards, chests of drawers, magnificent inlaid tables and rootwood secretaries—seemed to show indignation at the very thought of using them for their intended purpose.
“You know, in a certain sense, I have a special relationship with the Palazzo Dario, because thanks to me the original furniture has been preserved in it,” he said proudly. Who knows what would have happened if someone else had bought it. The best items from it would then stand in Milan salons or in America. And this Venetian antiques would not have endured. He needs the Venetian climate. High humidity. If you put it in an American apartment, where the air conditioner works in the summer, and in the winter everything shrinks because of the heating, it will very soon come to an end.
From the history of the owners of the palazzo:
– Palazzo Dario keeps many secrets for me as an art historian. The mass of circumstances hides the truth about him. For a long time there was not a single worthy historical evidence, except for the inscription "Genio Urbis Joannes Darius" on the facade, but such a meager message did not limit human imagination, rather the opposite. And perhaps this is precisely what should be considered as the source of endless stories about the palace.
- Palazzo Dario is the only one in Venice named after its creator. The inscription on the facade is a sign of Giovanni Dario's respect for his homeland. Giovanni Dario was one of the few owners of palaces on the world-famous Grand Canal who were not aristocrats. Most likely, the aristocrats of the world-famous Grand Canal considered him an upstart, and all his life he fought for public recognition.
“Once I was looking at the magnificent decoration of this facade, and it seemed to me that I saw in it the elegant nuances of the early Lombard style.
... a balcony with an iron balustrade, installed in the 18th century, emphasizes the magnificence of the facade decoration, the same can be said about the lattice for the lower windows near the water itself.
One of the rooms was almost completely lined with copper. Above the windows of the hall on the second floor there is a surprisingly inlaid gothic cornice. Palazzo Dario, no doubt, has become a worthy possession and housing of its creator - Giovanni Dario, whose name we read on the facade.
– Rod Dario belongs to the most famous and ancient in Venice. He comes from Crete. Giovanni Dario was supposedly born in 1414. By origin he was a tradesman, not a patrician, and a member, on the one hand, of an honorary, and on the other hand, of a minor group of senate secretaries. He performed various duties in the Council of Ten, led quite significant departments in the Senate and carried out various assignments ...
– Many historians have appreciated the merits of Giovanni Dario. Tentori, for example, admires him, almost idolizes him, as a man with a wealth of experience and political talent. Lecomte of the Faculty of History of the University of Montellier writes that Dario had already been appointed Ambassador of the Republic in 1450. However, this statement is not scientific in nature, it is unproven.
... Paolo Morosini, our honored historian from Padua, we owe the fact that it was Giovanni Dario who managed to make peace with the Sultan of Turkey, the terrible Mohamed II, the conqueror of Constantinople ...
- Dario was in 1478 authorized by Doge Giovanni Mocenigo with unlimited rights to decide and conclude peace with Mohamed II.
- Giovanni Dario was held in high esteem in Constantinople, as evidenced by two extremely interesting letters in which he describes the luxurious reception he received in this city ...
... for establishing peace with Mohamed II, the Republic granted him possession in Novent in Padua and, in addition, a thousand ducats from the salt magistracy as a dowry to his illegitimate daughter Marietta. And Mohamed gave him three gold-woven outfits ...
…and Dario's family settled in the palace: Dario with his mistress Chiara, his daughter Marietta and his two nephews Andrea and Francesco Pantaleo.
- How? Giovanni Dario was not married?
- Apparently not. But there is no direct indication of this. Giovanni Dario was seventy-five years old when he settled in his palace, and his life was already covered with thoughts of illness and death. Then he made a will. And in the same year, his daughter Marietta married the patrician Vincenzo Barbaro.
These Barbaros were a highly influential and aristocratic family. They lived in a nearby palazzo. On May 1, 1494, at the age of eighty, Giovanni Dario died. After his death, the palace passed into the possession of the Barbaro family. Until the beginning of the 19th century, it remained their property. With the death of Dario, some fate descended on his heirs and descendants ...
- Marietta was unlucky with her husband, the temper and anger of Vincenzo Barbaro were known to everyone. Soon he was expelled for ten years from the Grand Council for insulting a lawyer.
Marietta suffered because of the shameful position of her husband. And after the death of her father, she also died soon after. Young and unhappy. She was not even twenty. In the prime of youth! In the bedroom of the Palazzo Dario from a heart attack. And a few years after her death, Dario's nephews were brutally and mysteriously killed by robbers. Neither he nor his daughter, even after death, found peace. The church of Santa Maria delle Grazia, where they were buried, was blown up in 1849. The fact is that since 1810 it housed a powder warehouse, which was blown up when the Austrians entered here.
– We are grateful for these numerous valuable references and facts to the works of Rowdon LaBock Brown, the author of the famous study of the life of Maria Sanuto. Raudon Brown was the owner of the Dario Palace from 1838 to 1842. He bought it for four hundred and eighty pounds sterling from the Marquis of Ebdoll, an Armenian diamond dealer who represented Saxony in Venice until he unexpectedly went bankrupt.
…V last years of the last century, a boarding house was located in the palazzo. central chapter of his story. At that time it belonged to the Comtesse de la Baume Plouvignelle. She made friends with many thinkers, the French poet Henri de Regnier was her frequent guest in the early years of the 20th century, the inscription on the garden wall still reminds of him ...
– It was the Comtesse de la Baume Plouvignelle who initiated the decisive restoration work, when, for example, the fountain on the third floor was rebuilt.
True, she went too far with embellishment, in a word, she overloaded the palace. By her order, large mirrors were hung, they are still hanging, and majolica stoves were also installed. As D'Annunzio rightly noted then, Palazzo Dario turned into a "decrepit courtesan, bent under the weight of her jewelry." The poet lived at that time opposite, in a casetta rossa (pink house).
They tried to make a connection between the ebbs and flows - as one of the mysteries of the palazzo:
– What does the curse of Palazzo Dario have to do with the flood? Wanda didn't hesitate. “All Venice suffers from it.
“But not at low tide, right?” Palazzo Dario is the only palace where water is still standing at low tide in the world-famous Grand Canal. And it began almost immediately after our arrival: the water suddenly rose through the sewer hole - black, smelly, flooded the entire first floor. We thought it was a real flood and didn't understand why the siren didn't sound. And then they looked out of the window and it turned out that in the world-famous Grand Canal, the water had left with low tide. Gone so much that even the boat would not have come to the pier.
– Maybe something is wrong with the stock? It happens a lot,” Wanda said.
Mikel even raised his voice.
- Yes, we had the head of the city hall's flood department, magistratto delle acque. And I couldn't say anything! he shouted.
The bells on the Campanile chimed midnight, and the moon bathed the city in silver light. Anya took a deep breath. The vaporetto of the first line went towards the imposing church of Santa Maria della Salute. As they drew level with the Palazzo Dario, soft light fell on its pale Istrian marble, lighting it up in a festive way.
The tension eased Wanda a little. She began to navigate again, they sailed the Rio San Maurizio towards the world-famous Grand Canal. So Primo really took her to the Palazzo Dario. Palazzo Morosini dai Leoni, where the Guggenheim Museum was located, lay like an unfinished cake on the waterfront. Near the Rio de le Torezele between Palazzo Dario and the American Consulate. Primo led the gondola to the portico of the Palazzo Dario.
... And Palazzo Dario with its porta nera (black gates)!
In Reska's book, with great humor, it is told how various charlatans from magic were invited to the palazzo to cleanse it of the curse. And here quite a cool theory of the origin of the curse due to bad place buildings of the palazzo:
- Basically everything is clear. So to speak, mathematically, - said Wanda. – Of course, neither you nor your predecessors even bothered to look at the map of the city and how the Palazzo Dario is located. And if you take a look, everything will become clear to anyone who has even the slightest imagination.
She went to the library and, taking out a map of Venice, laid it out on the table in front of Radomir.
- I'll show you what the magician Alexander explained to me. Do you see that the world famous Grand Canal is shaped like a snake or even a dragon? It divides the city into two parts. Up here, at Margera, is the head of a dragon. Wanda ran her index finger along the world-famous Grand Canal. “Here, below, we find ourselves in an area that brings misfortune, because this is the tail of the dragon, the most unfortunate place, although contradictory at the same time.
Why contradictory? Radomir asked.
“Have patience,” Wanda said, “just listen for once. The place where Ka Dario stands is very negative. On the one hand, the palace is located on the left bank…
... And the left means negative, - Radomir finished for her.
- ABOUT! Bravo! Wanda replied. “Look, we are making progress in the world of the unknown!” On the other hand, at the end of the world-famous Grand Canal is the island of San Giorgio, named after St. George, who defeated the dragon. It neutralizes negative energy.
“Sounds logical,” agreed Radomir.
- Opposite us - the symbol of Venice - St. Mark's Cathedral, - Wanda continued confidently. - And both saints, St. Mark and St. George, must expel evil spirits and destroy dark force dragon.
“But if you look closely at the palazzo, its asymmetry will become clearly visible. In addition, there are seventeen windows in the palace, which is very bad. And the inscription: "Genio Urbis Joannes Darius". Dedication to the city. Like a dedication to a dragon, Alexander said. The same. He also tried to find out what an anagram of twenty-three letters meant. It means: Sub ruina insidosa genero (betrayal is born under the rubble). This means that everyone who moves into this palace will be destroyed,” Wanda finished.
The book reads interestingly, but - Petra Reski never gave her version of the origin of the curse and left the ending open - it can be interpreted in different ways. For those who like to read books with humor, but without a logical ending - suitable.
I will add just a few interesting facts to the history of the Palazzo Dario.
They wanted to rebuild the palazzo. On the left is a drawing of the existing facade, on the right is a drawing of the proposed restructuring, which never took place:
The famous French impressionist painter Claude Monet and his wife visited Venice:
The history of the Palazzo Dario interested Claude Monet and the views of the building were immortalized in the artist's paintings:
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And we saw such a palazzo, having set off immediately from St. Mark's Square in this direction.
On my first visit to Venice, I bought a collection of Venetian legends.
And it is very interesting - not only stories, but also photographs, and the exact places where "everything happened."
And already on the second visit I went to wander around Venice with this, so to speak, guidebook. (Now two sequels have already come out - I bought the second one, I didn’t like the third one) but the pleasure was most of all from the first one. I liked the two legends the most ....
So, the Palazzo that kills.
A curse hovers over the Venetian Palazzo Dario...
EVERYONE who came up with the idea to buy this lovely architectural monument DIE UNDER MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES!
Seven owners of Palazzo Dario… Seven stories of mysterious deaths.
Ka "Dario or Palazzo Dario (Italian: Ca" Dario, Palazzo Dario) - appeared on one of the banks of the Grand Canal in 1487, during the heyday and glory of the Venetian Republic.
It is located on the Grand Canal, almost next to Santa Maria della Salute, on the same side. It is very easy to notice it if you see a photo in advance - a small, compared to neighboring, palazzo is noticeable in three large circles on the right side of the facade, practically the next building after the Guggenheim Gallery.
It was built for the ambassador of Venice in Constantinople, Giovanni Dario, an outstanding personality in many respects. Dario did not belong to an aristocratic family - by origin he was a tradesman. But he managed to rise to the honorary post of Senate Secretary. However, he gained fame and fortune in the diplomatic field.
During the absence of the permanent ambassador in Istanbul, he was instructed to negotiate with the Sultan of Turkey, Mohammed II, the conqueror of Constantinople. Dario turned out to be a skilled diplomat and a talented politician who managed to conclude a long-awaited peace with the terrible Mohammed. For which he was generously awarded by both sides.
The wealth and respect of fellow citizens compensated for Dario's low origin: he was one of the few owners of palaces on the Grand Canal who did not belong to an aristocratic family.
After the death of Dario, according to the will, the palace passed into the possession of the Barbaro family, and Dario's daughter Marietta married Barbaro's son. Illegitimate daughter, I want to point out. The palazzo remained their property until the beginning of the 19th century. This is where our story begins.
The Palazzo did not bring happiness to either Barbaro or Dario's daughter. Her husband turned out to be a quick-tempered and angry man, and was soon expelled for ten years from the Grand Council for insulting a lawyer.
Marietta suffered greatly because of the shameful position of her husband and his quick temper. Perhaps these experiences caused a sudden heart attack. Marietta died before she was 20 years old.
Some time after her death, Dario's nephews died under mysterious circumstances. These unexpected deaths opened a series of misfortunes.
In the XIX century, the Palazzo Dario for some time belonged to the English historian and world explorer Dario Rodon Brown. Brown had to sell the palace, as he simply did not have enough funds for its repair and reconstruction. However ... both Brown and his school friend, who had been visiting the palace for a long time, committed suicide, before these Brown also lost everything he had.
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A wealthy American diamond dealer, Arbit Abdol, lost his entire fortune and died in poverty.
American tycoon Charles Briggs left Italy in a hurry after a homosexual scandal. His lover soon committed suicide in Mexico.
Count Filippo Giordano del Lanze was killed by a lover who threw a heavy statuette at his head.
Christopher Lambert, the band's manager, died a violent death. Who".
Venetian businessman Fabrizio Yerrari - his investment fund collapsed, his sister Nicoletta was found naked, dead a few meters from her car not far from Venice.
Raul Giardini, a pharmaceutical tycoon, shot himself shortly after buying the Palazzo.
The famous tenor Mario del Monaco, after signing a preliminary contract for the purchase of the palazzo, was in a serious car accident and immediately refused the purchase.
In the semi-detective, semi-humorous novel "Palazzo Dario", the German writer Petra Reski comes to the conclusion that the Palazzo does not like homosexuality and extramarital affairs;) It is not surprising that Woody Allen and Roman Polanski refused the purchase on reflection.
Over time, it became difficult to find those willing to buy dario. A few years ago, it looked abandoned, with dead tree branches in a small garden - very, I must say, lonely. So there was a desire to adopt, there would be millions!JThey say that some American fund managed the palazzo.
Palazzo by Monet
In October 2009, I was surprised - the palazzo in the forests - is being actively reconstructed, apparently, there was a daredevil. Well, let's wait and see!
No one knows what the curse hovering over the palace is connected with, but some associate it with a dedication carved on the basement of the building. Giovanni Dario dedicated his palace to the spirit of the city. And the palace, apparently, cannot have two owners ...
