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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Vincenzo Peruggia
		Vincenzo Peruggia (October 8th, 1881 - 1947) is the man who once stole the Mona Lisa.
		Vincenzo's heirs said he did it for a patriotic reason: he wanted to bring the painting back to Italy after it was stolen by Napoleon.
		Although perhaps sincere in his motive, Vincenzo appeared not to know that Leonardo da Vinci took this painting as a gift for Francis I when he moved to France to become a painter in his court.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Vincenzo_Peruggia (382 words)

	Vincenzo Peruggia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Vincenzo Peruggia (October 8th, 1881 - 1947) is the man who stole the Mona Lisa.
		The story says Vincenzo hid the painting under the table cloth and when policemen came to search his apartment in Florence they signed some papers on the very table that was hiding the painting.
		Vincenzo's heirs said he did it for a patriotic reason: he wanted to bring the painting back to Italy after it was stolen by Napoleon.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Vincenzo_Peruggia (354 words)

	La Gioconda - ASSOCRAL
		Vincenzo Peruggia però non era certo lo sprovveduto imbianchino cui può far pensare l'epilogo della vicenda: il colpo lo aveva infatti preparato nei dettagli pensando a tutto.
		Poi alle 9 Peruggia scende precipitosamente le scale stando ben attento a farsi notare dalla portinaia cui dice di essere in ritardo al lavoro a causa della notte brava che aveva appena trascorso.
		Vincenzo Peruggia da Dumenza aveva messo in scacco l'intera polizia di Francia.
	www.assocral.org /home/la_gioconda.asp (885 words)

	Vincenzo Peruggia - encyclopedia article about Vincenzo Peruggia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The story says Vincenzo hid the painting under the table cloth and when policemen came to search his apartment in Florence they signed some papers on the very table that was hiding the painting.
		After having kept the painting in his apartment for two years, Peruggia grew impatient and was finally caught when he attempted to sell it to a Florence art dealer; it was exhibited all over Italy and returned to the Louvre in 1913.
		Vincenzo's heirs said he did it for a patriotic reason: he wanted to bring the painting back to Italy after it was stolen by Napoleon.
	www.dr-science.org /wiki/Vincenzo_Peruggia (322 words)

	Vincenzo Peruggia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vincenzo Peruggia, the man who stole the Mona Lisa in 1911 (police photograph)
		Vincenzo Peruggia (October 8th, 1881 - 1947) is the man who stole the Mona Lisa.
		He was sent to jail for one year and fifteen days for what is sometimes described as the greatest art theft of the 20th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vincenzo_Peruggia (327 words)

	The Tribune - Magazine section - Windows - Did You Know... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The employee, Vincenzo Peruggia, felt the Italian painting belonged to Italy and shouldn't be kept in France.
		Peruggia was encouraged to steal the painting by Eduardo de Valfierno, an Argentinian con man.
		While Peruggia himself kept the Mona Lisa, hiding it in the false bottom of a trunk, de Valfierno took advantage of the theft by hiring an art forger to make six copies of the stolen painting.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2004/20040320/windows/did.htm (180 words)

	Vincenzo Peruggia
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		Il furto della Gioconda: Vincenzo Peruggia e la sua storia (Il liocorno)
	www.abacci.com /wikipedia/topic.aspx?cur_title=Vincenzo_Peruggia (33 words)

	GardeningDaily - Vincenzo Peruggia
		Vincenzo Peruggia (1881 - 1947) is the man who stole the Mona Lisa.
		In 1911 when a former Louvre worker walked into the museum, saw that the room holding the Mona Lisa was empty of guards and visitors, took the painting off its pegs, went to a staircase, removed the painting from its frame, and walked out with it under his arm.
		The story says Vincenzo hid the painting under the table cloth and when policemen came to search his apartment they signed some papers on the very table that was hiding the painting.
	www.gardeningdaily.com /flowers-and-plants/Vincenzo_Peruggia (216 words)

	Dumenza
		On the morning of Monday, 21st August 1911, Vincenzo, a 30-year-old Italian painter-decorator, in Paris since 1908, was able to get into the Louvre and out again, carrying the Monna Lisa stuffed under his workman's smock.
		Vincenzo kept the painting in his lodgings, hidden under a stove, for more than two years.
		On December, Peruggia arrived in Florence, by train, with the Mona Lisa in a wooden trunk, and he checked into the Albergo Tripoli-Italia on via Panzani (today, the Hotel La Gioconda).
	www.ilvaresotto.it /inglese/Citta/Dumenza.htm (312 words)

	Comune di Dumenza - La Storia
		Dopo regolare processo, il Peruggia fu condannato ad un anno e 15 giorni di carcere, scontati i quali - nonostante fosse stato dichiarato persona non gradita e gli fosse stato proibito di posar piede su suolo francese – tornò in Francia sostituendo il suo primo nome con il secondo.
		Vincenzo Peruggia nel romanzo fu fatto morire nel 1947, a settant’anni, in una cittadina dell’Alta Savoia” il che non e' assolutamente vero.
		Vincenzo Peruggia morì l ’8 ottobre 1925, il giorno del suo 44esimo compleanno, concluse la sua bizzarra ed avventurosa esistenza terrena a Saint Maur des Fosses, fulminato da un infarto sull’uscio di casa mentre stava tornando dal lavoro.
	www.comune.dumenza.va.it /pages/curiosita.htm (610 words)

	What Happened On 21st August from theVoiceofReason.com
		Vincenzo Peruggia, a former employee of the Louvre, walked into the Louvre museum in Paris, walked straight up to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, took it off the wall, hid it under his clothing and walked out, unchallenged.
		Peruggia was arrested when he came to collect the money.
		Peruggia claimed that he had taken the painting to avenge Italy of the atrocities committed by France in the Napoleonic wars.
	www.thevoiceofreason.com /OnThisDay/August/21.htm (292 words)

	Mona Lisa
		The painting has been restored numerous times: unfortunately, several details have been lost in the process, including Lisa's eyebrows and (possibly) a pearl necklace she was wearing.
		On August 22, 1911, Louvre employee Vincenzo Peruggia, who at first believed the painting belonged to Italy and shouldn't be kept in France, stole the painting by simply walking out the door with it hidden under his coat.
		However, greed got the better of him and the Mona Lisa was returned to the Louvre in 1913 when Peruggia attempted to sell it to a Florence art dealer.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mo/Mona_Lisa.html (443 words)

	Vivere Senigallia - L'incredibile storia di Vincenzo Peruggia
		L'incredibile storia di Vincenzo Peruggia ebbe il suo tragicomico epilogo poco più di novant'anni fa, a Firenze, il 13 dicembre 1913, nell’albergo “Tripoli e Italia”, quando venne rinvenuto il quadro della Gioconda che lo stesso Peruggia aveva trafugato due anni prima dal museo del Louvre.
		Il giorno prima infatti, per dotarsi di un alibi convincente, Peruggia aveva organizzato una serata in un caffè con i suoi amici italiani, gozzovigliando fino a tardi, fingendosi ubriaco e prendendo anche una multa per schiamazzi notturni.
		Alle nove in punto Peruggia riuscì dal suo appartamento, ridiscese nuovamente le scale, stando questa volta ben attento a farsi notare dalla portinaia (alla quale disse di andare di fretta al lavoro perché la sera prima aveva alzato troppo il gomito e si era svegliato tardi).
	www.viveresenigallia.it /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3033 (1008 words)

	Tgcom - Preziosi ruba la Gioconda per amore
		Vincenzo Peruggia emigra e tenta la fortuna a Parigi con un impiego da manovale all'interno del Louvre.
		Vincenzo si innamora di Aurore, un'acrobata di circo senza famiglia mantenuta dall'antiquario Dupont, e, in uno slancio d'amore, decide di sorprenderla, rubando per lei la Gioconda, il ritratto davanti al quale la ragazza rimane incantata.
		Peruggia cade nella trappola; il Geri dopo aver trattenuto il quadro per due giorni, lo consegna agli Uffizi e denuncia Peruggia che viene arrestato.
	www.tgcom.mediaset.it /televisione/articoli/articolo332751.shtml (826 words)

	The Stolen Smile - PowerBookSearch! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The elegant and urbane prose casts a film-noir spell as Peruggia, a former Louvre employee, describes how he got past the guards, removed the treasure, and lived with "La Gioconda" for two years until his plan to see the painting hang in the Uffizi ended in his arrest.
		From the moment one hears the voice of Vincenzo Peruggia—who accomplished the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre—one is caught up in the fanciful world of a self-avowed patriot and madman.
		Vincenzo's verbal flights recreate his deed and its upshot: the return of Da Vinci's masterwork to Paris by the Italian government.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch1568461925.html (417 words)

	Mona Lisa
		Despite Peruggia having left a large thumbprint at the scene, it took the Parisian police two years to retrieve the painting and make their arrest.
		The thief was a 30-year-old Italian painter-decorator and petty criminal, Vincenzo Peruggia.
		Vincenzo looked at us with a kind of fixed stare, smiling complacently, as if he had painted it himself." He was arrested later that day.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /020602.html (12943 words)

	El Día que robaron la gioconda. : Lo Insólito: El Aviso.com
		Vincenzo Peruggia siguió con su vida oscura, sin saber muy bien qué hacer con la obra maestra en sus manos.
		Vincenzo le pidió una recompensa de medio millón de liras al anticuario, y la garantía de que la Gioconda jamás regresaría al Louvre.
		Peruggia -quien aseguró no haber tenido cómplices en su aventura solitaria había actuado bajo un fuerte impacto emocional, hechizado por la belleza de la Gioconda, y su único móvil fue rescatarla de manos de los franceses para devolverla a su verdadera patria.
	www.elaviso.com /noticias/?ContentID=2674 (1114 words)

	la gioconda
		Peruggia, que había nacido en Dumenza, una localidad al norte de Italia, en 1881, llevaba una existencia a media asta: pobre, solitario y de pocas luces, a principios del siglo XX se mudó a París con la esperanza de lograr algo que se pareciese a un por venir.
		Vincenzo, el ladrón, esperó hasta que el guardia del Salón Carré dejó su puesto para ir a fumar un cigarri Eran alrededor de las 8 de la mañana del 21 de agosto y él ya se había vestido con los amplios guardapolvos que usaban los obreros del Louvre.
		Vicenzo Peruggia siguió con su vida oscura, sin saber muy bien qué hacer con esa obra maestra que había ocultado debajo del falso fondo de un destartalado baúl.
	misterios1.tripod.com /la_gioconda.htm (2903 words)

	The greatest heists in art history. (kottke.org)
		The theft was masterminded by Eduardo de Valfierno, a con-man who had six forgeries of the Mona Lisa painted and shipped to various parts of the world before the theft took place, knowing customs would not be looking for the famous painting (it having not been stolen yet).
		Having lined up buyers beforehand, he then hired Vincenzo Peruggia, a carpenter who had helped create the Mona Lisa's protective case, to hide in the museum overnight with several accomplices.
		Peruggia kept the painting in his apartment, just a few blocks from the Louvre, and waited for some word from Valfierno for two years before getting caught trying to sell the painting to an art dealer.
	www.kottke.org /remainder/04/08/6332.html (335 words)

	The Mona Lisa - Art History
		Suspects in the case were French poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who had once called for the Louvre to be "burnt down," and Pablo Picasso.
		It turned out that Louvre employee Vincenzo Peruggia hid in the museum at closing time and the next morning cut the painting from its frame and walked out the door with it hidden under his coat.
		The theft was planned by a con man who had commissioned an art forger to make copies of the painting that he could sell as the missing original.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art18406.asp (656 words)

	Anecdotage.Com - Thousands of true funny stories about famous people. Anecdotes from Gates to Yeats
		One day in 1911, an Italian house painter named Vincenzo Peruggia, angered by incessant French taunts (he was often called a "macaroni eater") sought his revenge by stealing Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa (on a Sunday, when the Louvre was relatively unguarded) and hiding out in a hotel for more than a year.
		Peruggia was let off with a lenient sentence on 'patriotic' grounds by an Italian court.
		Incredibly, more people visited the museum during this interval - to see the blank space on the wall where the Mona Lisa had once hung - than had visited over the previous twelve years to see the painting itself.
	www.anecdotage.com /index.php?aid=11713 (373 words)

	Vincenzo Peruggia
		Vincenzo Peruggia is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
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		Vincenzo Peruggia: Encyclopedia II - Mona Lisa - Identity of the model
	www.experiencefestival.com /vincenzo_peruggia (1189 words)

	ART / 4 / 2DAY
		Italian Vincenzo Peruggia, employed by the Louvre, in Paris, to install mirrors, has spent the night hiding in the closed museum.
		When Peruggia, for it is him, goes to Florence to complete the transaction, he is captured on 12 December 1913, and the oil painting is recovered unharmed.
		Peruggia, a former employee of the Louvre, claimed that he had acted out of a patriotic duty to avenge the wrongs Italy had suffered from Napoléon.
	www.jcanu.hpg.ig.com.br /art/art4aug/art0822.html (7813 words)

	Fővárosi Szabó Ervin Könyvtár - :: Leonardo da Vinci: Mona Lisa
		1911-ben egy Vincenzo Peruggia nevű olasz, a Louvre alkalmazottja elemelte a képet, hogy visszajuttassa Olaszországba.
		Két és fél év után végre elkapták a valódi tettest, Vincenzo Peruggia nevű olasz mesterembert, aki a lopás ideje alatt a Louvre helyreállítási munkálatain dolgozott.
		Vincenzo Peruggia minden idők legnagyobb műkincsrablását hajtotta végre 95 évvel ezelőtt.
	www.fszek.hu /?tPath=/print/konyvtaraink/kozponti_konyvtar/kozossegi_informaciok_tara/kalendarium&article_print=yes&article_id=26428&prk=74454691 (496 words)

	Objects of Affection :: The Memphis Flyer :: the mid-south's news weekly :: Book Reviews :: Books
		In 1911, an Italian house painter exited one of the side doors of the Louvre with a lady known for her enigmatic smile.
		Vincenzo Peruggia had taken Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa off the wall, slipped it out of its frame, put it under his smock, and left.
		So instead I'll give away the ending of Stealing the Mona Lisa: The modest Peruggia hides the painting in a trunk and returns to the Italian city where it was painted.
	www.memphisflyer.com /memphis/PrintFriendly?oid=oid:4384 (642 words)

	Club Lexus Forums - View Single Post - 1911 The Mona Lisa is stolen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In perhaps the most brazen art theft of all time, Vincenzo Peruggia walks into the Louvre, in France, heads straight for the infamous Mona Lisa, removes it from the wall, hides it beneath his clothes, and escapes.
		Peruggia, a former employee of the Louvre, claimed that he had acted out of a patriotic duty to avenge Italy on behalf of Napoleon.
		Peruggia served seven months of a one-year sentence and later served in the Italian army during the First World War.
	www.clublexus.com /forums/showpost.php?p=657799&postcount=1 (336 words)

	Nel nostro giornale del 2001
		Peruggia voleva riportare in Italia quanto era stato razziato durante le campagne napoleoniche (in realtà il dipinto si trovava in Francia già da qualche secolo).
		Spuntarono qua e là strane Gioconde e Peruggia scrisse al conosciuto antiquario Geri, di Firenze che fiutando la ricompensa si disse pronto a esaminare il quadro.
		Vincenzo Peruggia morì a 44 anni, il l8 ottobre 1925; sua madre, originaria di Cannobio, non gli perdonò mai quel furto, perchè diceva: "non si deve mai rubare, nè una Gioconda nè una caramella..."
	www.pro-orselina.ch /orselina_news/2001/Gioconda.htm (351 words)

	info: Vincenzo_Peruggia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Mona Lisa ManiaVincenzo Peruggia noticing a large number of Italian paintings in the French national collection, assumed they were stolen by Napoleon.
		Vincenzo Peruggia, a former employee of the Louvre, walked into the Louvre museum in Paris, walked...
		Ninety five years ago, on this day, Louvre employee and otherwise wholly unremarkable man Vincenzo Peruggia stole the painting under orders of a con artist who planned to...
	www.napoli-pizza.net /Vincenzo_Peruggia.html (408 words)

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