A reporter of Italian unification: Ippolito Caffi (Belluno, 1809 - Lissa, 1866) experienced 1848 and the ‘Expedition of the Thousand’ with Garibaldi, but he was also a painter of journeys: Italy, Greece, Egypt, Paris, Constantinople. The Collezione Intesa Sanpaolo has two beautiful paintings by Caffi: 'Nocturne' (Venice) and a bold 'Self-portrait'. Pietro Selvatico said of him that he was ‘the artist who knows nocturnal effects the best’, as is clear in the work in the collection. The moonlight beams onto the water and floods the square. This nocturne is a classic of late-eighteenth century and nineteenth-century landscape painting.