fartignano

Updated: June 16, 2025

Then too a terrible plague swept over the countryside, and people died by thousands. To the hospital of Fartignano, close to Perugia, they carried Perugino when the deadly plague seized him, and there he died. There was no time to think of grand funerals; the people were buried as quickly as possible, in whatever place lay closest at hand.

Amy Steedman - Knights of Art; stories of the Italian painters