Hemingway wrote "Across the River and into the Trees" while living in this city's Gritti Palace, & part of the book is set there
Colonel Richard Cantwell is the book's main protagonist who bears a ... 
Also, the Gran Maestro is the head waiter at the Gritti Palace Hotel... [DOC] [TLE] Hemingway's venetian muse Adriana Ivancich [PAR] Dec 13, 2011 ... read Hemingway's novel Across the River and into the Trees I liked the 
atmosphere he ...