Matteo is an excellent host, meeting us upon arrival, providing excellent food recommendations, and always being in contact should we need anything. He even helped us navigate how to get some lost valuables in Venice back to us - going as far as calling up family contacts to ensure we got them back in the US.
His place is centrally located, charming and has lots of character. Reminder that since it is an old building, that character means some trade offs in terms of modern conveniences - mainly shorter hot water times in the shower. That said, it didn’t hinder our enjoyment of the place at all and we just took shorter showers (saves water anyway!). We recommend staying at his place to anyone and hope they have as good of time as we did.