Ca' Centani, or Centanni - now better known as Casa di Carlo Goldoni - was built in the fifteenth century and has maintained all the features of Venetian Gothic architecture of that period. The famous Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni was born here in 1707 (25 February), and the building would remain to the Goldoni family home until 1719.
 
The three rooms of the first floor are dedicated to the main themes in the theatre of Carlo Goldoni (entrance salon); the puppet theatre from Palazzo Grimani ai Servi (formerly in Ca' Rezzonico) and the position of Carlo Goldoni and his work within eighteenth-century Venice. Original period paintings and furnishings appear in carefully-created settings that are built around the illustrations from the first editions of Goldoni's works.