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Vincenzo Peruggia (8 October 1881 – 8 October 1925) was an Italian decorator best known for stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre, a museum in Paris where he had briefly worked as glazier, on 21 August 1911.
In 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia is a poverty-stricken Italian glazier who falls in love with Mathilde, a French hotel maid. Struck by the girl's resemblance to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Vicenzo steals the painting from the Louvre in hopes of impressing her. When she proves to be fickle, the crestfallen hero confesses and is arrested.
(Vincenzo Peruggia is arrested and the painting returned 1913.) 25 September – French battleship Liberté explodes at anchor in Toulon. 20 December – First robbery of the Bonnot gang. Champagne Riots.
Two years later, Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian patriot who claimed that he stole the painting to return it to the homeland of Leonardo da Vinci, was arrested in Florence and the painting was recovered. [56] At 3:08 pm, President Taft signed the joint resolution offering American statehood to Arizona and New Mexico. [57]
French poet Guillaume Apollinaire came under suspicion and was arrested and imprisoned. Apollinaire implicated his friend Pablo Picasso, who was brought in for questioning. Both were later exonerated. [99] [100] The real culprit was Louvre employee Vincenzo Peruggia, who had helped construct the painting's glass case. [101]
A Connecticut man who allegedly killed a woman and her infant son in November targeted the woman because she owed him $400 for renting a vehicle of his, arrest reports said on Monday.
December 12 – Vincenzo Peruggia tries to sell the Mona Lisa in Florence, and is arrested. December 19 – The Raker Act is signed by President Woodrow Wilson, allowing the City of San Francisco to dam Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park.
The FBI contacted her several days before the arrest with questions about Cilino, she said. Cilino posted bail of $10,000 after his arrest, and is scheduled to return to court May 3.