An outline of the history:

Our house rises in a urban island once owned to the nuns of San Girolamo and the friars of San Secondo. All the area since 17th century was called Chiovere di San Girolamo. A "Chiovera" is a sort of small area closed by fences where hung out cloth to dry. In ancient times the art of silk grew in all the area with many dyers (Chiovere from the latin "clauderiae"). From this fact the names of some places: Fondamenta de i Ormesini, from Hormuz, an asian city destroyed in 14th century where Venetians learned the refined art of silk for their marvellous clothes used from 16th to 18th centuries. In our area of Chiovere there are other names related to this famous activity: Campiello della Porpora (purple) or Calle Tintoria (dye-works) and so on. The Rio (Canal), facing our balcony, is called "del Battello" (it means "Canal of the small boat") probably because the nuns did not allow the construction of the actual bridge reaching the Chiovere and a small boat was used to cross the canal.

	Ludovico Ughi, 1729 ed L. Furlanetto, 1779 (ASV)