Iki dibukak dening Floriano Francesconi kanthi jeneng "Alla Venezia triumphant" lan langsung ngegungake klien sing misuwur, kayata Carlo Goldoni lan Giacomo Casanova. Ing taun-taun sabanjure, tokoh-tokoh terkenal kayata Silvio Pellico, Niccolò Tommaseo, Giuseppe Parini, Daniele Manin lan banjur Lord Byron, Ugo Foscolo, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Antonio Canova, François-René de Chateaubriand nyabrang. Madame de Staël, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Charles Dickens, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Marcel Proust, Henry James, Igor Stravinsky, Amedeo Modigliani... praktis mandeg tetep kanggo saben intelektual ngunjungi Venice.
