Rocco Benedetti was a Venetian notary in the late 1500s, the author of a description of the festivities during the Venetian visit of King Henry III of France, and an eyewitness account of the plague epidemic of 1575–1577.
The statue on the façade of the San Zulian church is not a saint, but an astrologer and doctor, who sold remedies for syphilis.