Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo (1472-81)

This palace seems to stand directly above the site of the prison in which St Francis was incarcerated as a prisoner of war in 1202. 

[Describe the need for the new palace for the Capitano del Popolo and his status at this point in time.] 

The Lombard architects Gasparino di Antonio and Leone di Matteo designed the new palace as an imposing three-storey building; the present third storey replaced the taller original after an earthquake in 1741. 

• The middle storey contains four elegant before windows decorated with reliefs of human and animal heads. 

• The Renaissance portal, which is based on that of the Palazzo dei Priori, has a figure of Justice in the lunette. 

• The elegant Loggia del Banditore to the right was used for public proclamations.  The official Perugian measures are inscribed on a relief to the left of it.

This building (together with the ex-Palazzo dell’ Università Vecchia to the right of it and the ex-convent to the left that belonged to the Jesuits of il Gésu) houses the Perugian law courts and associated offices.

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