Piazza dei Signori left, cross the porch of Soffioni, which links the Palazzo dei Trecento with the Prefecture. The name derives not so much by the wind that blows almost constantly, what some cartocci of gunpowder (known precisely soffioni) that were started in ancient times for aizzare dogs against bulls during the show that took place every Thursday fat in Piazza dei Signori .
Crossing the porch reach you in the characteristic Piazzetta del Monte di Pieta. The square, closed on three sides, is established in the autumn of the traditional market for mushrooms from Montello (a wooded hill a few miles from town).
On the bottom of the Piazzetta, above the Church of Saint Lucia, are the premises in which, in 1496, was established on Mount Mercy. It was an institution created with the aim of curbing the usury practiced by Jews. On the first floor of the building are exposed in some rooms of various works of art owned by Cassamarca: between those of the dormit Virginis Girolamo da Treviso, the Elder and the Christ the Sepulcher, formerly attributed to Giorgione, but for the latter to be precisadonsi hour pordenonese the paternity of Sebastiano Florigerio. Jewel del Monte di Pietà, however, is the ancient chapel of Rectors, a small rectangular environment of the late sixteenth century, exceptionally well preserved.
Beautiful are the ceiling rafters painted braids and the coating walls with precious leathers guilloche pattern Cordova, imprinted, paintings, gold and silver models on imitation of Arab-Hispanics. At the top of the walls between rich carved frames, are two long canvas depicting six stories and parables of the Old and New Testament allusive to charity: Hagar and the Angel, the Good Samaritan, Moses that makes water flow from the desert, the Banquet of the rich man, Elijah feed the crow, the prodigal son.
The paintings are considered the masterpiece of Flemish painter, naturalized Treviso, Ludovico Toeput, said Pozzoserrato (1591 approx). Some of these scenes are interesting for the setting in sixteenth-century Venetian villas. On the wall opposite the windows shaped absidiola basin is frescoed in the Multiplication of the loaves and fishes of Ludovico Fiumicelli (1560 approx), almost a symbolic call to charity, which was to animate the Rectors.