Word: perugia
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...forbidden to lie on the floor." In Venice, they fed the pigeons in St. Mark's Square, drifted down the Grand Canal in gondolas, and pointed out to each other the palaces once lived in by Byron and Browning. They rolled through the hill towns of Siena, Perugia and Orvieto in air-conditioned motor coaches of the government's CIAT Travel Agency (Florence to Rome: $6.50), equipped with radios, lavatories, bars and pretty hostesses...
...parishioners in Tuscany remembered Don Attilio Bellachioma as a compassionate man who spent most of his time, and all his money, distributing charity to the poor. Even after he retired, half-blind after 37 years of parish work, to a home for aged priests in Perugia, he scraped together regular contributions for his favorite orphanages...
...Italiano, which since its furtive foundation 2^ years ago has managed to make itself a minor political force in Italy. In last year's elections, M.S.I, polled half a million votes (out of more than 26 million); it is the largest political group at the universities of Pisa, Perugia, Naples and Palermo. M.S.I, is chiefly a refuge for discontented white-collar workers and disenchanted youths...
...from Cambridge University in 1929. He speaks Italian, German, French and English fluently, and knows Italy like the back of his hand. He was working for International News Service in Rome when America went to war, and was promptly arrested by the police and interned as an "antinational" at Perugia. Later, he escaped, spent a winter in the hills outside Rome, made it through to the Allied lines and, in 1945, went to work for TIME...
...ancient lands of Tuscany and Umbria they captured Assisi, where St. Francis lived and preached. British Iancers. now motorized, fought for two days on the outskirts of Perugia, then moved into the almost undamaged city of Gothic buildings and Umbrian paintings...