The article analyses the book of Serban Marin, underlining the positive and negative aspects of this reflection about the Venetian foundation myths. From a careful analysis of Venetian chronicles some key elements, not mentioned in the aforesaid book, may be inferred: the absence of the description of the mythological origins of the city of St. Mark in many medieval Venetian chronicles, the paucity of iconographic sources or the framing of the Venetian myth within the contemporary European mythopoesis.