The Story of Perugia

L'Apennin est franchi, et les collines modérées, les riches plaines bien encadrées commencent à se déployer et à s'ordonner comme sur l'autre versant. Cà et là une ville en tas...

There is perhaps no gallery in Europe as single-minded--as devoted to one set of men--as the gallery at Perugia. In passing through its separate rooms one feels none of that pai...

In Professor Freeman's small sketch of Perugia he says very truly that the most striking points of the city--that is to say, of the Mediæval and Renaissance period--are those wh...

Sometimes in a street or in a country road we meet an unknown person who seems to us wonderfully and inexplicably attractive. Perhaps we only catch a passing vision; the face, t...

From an historical point of view the crowning interest of the buildings of Perugia was to be found in the great fortress which Paul III. built in the middle of the sixteenth cen...

So after centuries of steady struggle fate had at last decreed that the nobles should have their way. Because the way of the Baglioni is the most picturesque point in all the an...

"The confusion, exhaustion, and demoralisation engendered by these conflicts determined the advent of Despots.... The Despot delivered the industrial classes from the tyranny an...

Having glanced thus rapidly over the history of Perugia we turn with fresh interest to examine the city itself, and to trace through what remains of its earliest walls and house...

Having traced the first Etruscan walls and seen the tomb of the Volumnii, a note of sombre and half melancholy interest will inevitably have been struck upon our mind whilst try...

The Piazza del Papa[69] lies a little to the right of the entrance door to the Duomo. In former times the straw market was held in this square, which was then called the Piazza...

The name of Perugia is naturally connected with that of Pietro Vannucci _detto il Perugino_, or, as he preferred to sign himself, _Petrus de Castro Plebis_, who stamped the pecu...

Just under the bell tower of the Palazzo Pubblico a narrow street, called the Via dei Priori, well-paved, and preserving many characteristics of the mediæval city, runs steeply...

One beautiful story is told in the "Fioretti" about Gregory IX., who doubted of the miracles of S. Francis till the saint appeared in person and revealed the truth to him. There...