He currently lives in his native Venice.

He swore as an eyewitness that his native Venice was the birthplace of pasta.

Nearly every Italian city, and especially his native Venice, is festooned with Goldoni statues, piazzas and boulevards.

Girolamo Brusaferro was an Italian painter of the 18th century, active in his native Venice.

Jacopo Marieschi (1711-1794) was an Italian painter of Vedute, active in his native Venice.

He was discovered whilst working as a gondolier in his native Venice.

Matteo Lucchesi (1705-1776) was an Italian architect and Engineer, active mainly in his native Venice.

(Whether the same will be true this summer of Titian, in his native Venice, remains to be seen.)

(It was not till 1967 - 199 years after his death - that his native Venice got around to mounting one.)

It was in this war that Marco Polo, fighting for his native Venice, was taken prisoner and while in prison wrote his memoirs.