Perugia
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Ancient name: Perusia. a city in central Italy, in Umbria: centre of the Umbrian school of painting (15th century); university (1308); Etruscan and Roman remains. Pop: 149 125 (2001)
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another name for (Lake) Trasimene
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The Edinburgh Festival Fringe website says Knox's show, Cartwheel, is about motherhood and asks how she will explain what happened in Perugia to her daughter.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Once part of a 1341 Maestà that adorned a city gate in Assisi, it now hangs at the end of “Giotto and St. Francis” at the National Gallery of Umbria in Perugia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
Glazier Vincenzo Perugia hid the Renaissance masterpiece in his Paris home for two years before trying to sell the portrait to a Florentine dealer.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025
Back in the fall of 2007, Knox was a 20-year-old student from Seattle, studying in Perugia and rooming with a young British woman named Meredith Kercher.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2025
Perugia claimed he’d just wanted “advice” from Duveen on how to take the painting to Italy.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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