Among the tangled webs of the ancient Venetian nobility, one stands out for the city of Vicenza, the one that bears the solemn coat of arms of the Trissino family.
The chronicles report the honors already from the year 1000, but it is in the Renaissance that thanks to some prominent personalities in the field of politics and science, the Trissino family assumed a particular importance.
Much of this prestige is due to the figure of Gian Giorgio Trissino, appointed by the Emperor Maximilian of Hapsburg with the predicate of the Golden Fleece, an extremely cultured and productive man of letters and a passionate Greek scholar. Convinced Dantista, he questioned deeply on the Italian grammar, coming to compose works to say the least innovative for the time, analyzing linguistic implications that few others had the courage to discuss: known was his reform of the alphabet with the introduction of new letters, which in fact, came from the Greek. Evident was in fact his great passion for classical culture, which he passionately instilled in his protégé, the very young Andrea Palladio.
Trissino wanted to cultivate, above all, his humanist inclination, a move that was not foreseen at that time: the architect was a technician who was questioned for his ability to realize the desires of the client, but who put little of his moral and philosophy into the works. It will be Gian Giorgio Trissino himself who will attribute to the young Andrea di Pietro della Gondola the appellation of Palladio and who will consistently nourish his passion for classical teachings, for taste, for the dogmas of a by now lost time from which Palladio extracted all the possible beauty and introduced it into his projects.