Ilifunguliwa na Floriano Francesconi kwa jina "Alla Venezia mshindi" na mara moja akajivunia mteja mashuhuri, kama vile Carlo Goldoni na Giacomo Casanova. Katika miaka iliyofuata, watu mashuhuri kama vile Silvio Pellico, Niccolò Tommaseo, Giuseppe Parini, Daniele Manin na kisha Lord Byron, Ugo Foscolo, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Antonio Canova, François-René de Chateaubriand walivuka kizingiti chake. Madame de Staël, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Charles Dickens, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Marcel Proust, Henry James, Igor Stravinsky, Amedeo Modigliani... ni kituo kisichobadilika kwa kila mwanafikra anayetembelea Venice.