is no external confirmation for this tale. Later life Peruggia was released from jail after a short time and served in the Italian army during World War I. During the war, he was captured by Austria-Hungary and held as a POW for two years until the war ended and he was released. He later married, had one daughter, Celestina, returned to France, and continued to work as a painter decorator using his birth name Pietro Peruggia. He died on 8 October 1925 (his 44th birthday) in the Paris suburb of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France. He was buried in the Condé Cemetery of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés. Sometime in the 1950s, Peruggia's remains were exhumed and relocated into the cemetery bonelocker. His death in 1925 was not widely reported by the media at the time, possibly because he died under the name of Pietro Peruggia; obituaries appeared mistakenly only when another Vincenzo Peruggia died in Haute-Savoie in 1947. Portrayals In Der Raub der Mona Lisa (1931), an early German sound film, he was portrayed by Willi Forst. In The Man Who Stole La Gioconda (it) (2006), a television miniseries, he was portrayed by Alessandro Preziosi. In an April 1956 episode of the TV show You Are There, called "The Recovery of the Mona Lisa (December 10, 1913)", Peruggia is played by Vito Scotti, who reprised the role in another TV reconstruction of the famous theft, this time for the TV-show G.E. True. The episode was called "The Tenth Mona Lisa" and aired in March 1963. In a 2018 episode of Drunk History on Comedy Central, he was portrayed by Jack Black. See also Kempton Bunton The Art of the Steal (2013) References Sources Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas, The Crimes of Paris New York: Little, Brown, 2009, pp. 3–7, 305–314. Kuper, Simon, "Who Stole the Mona Lisa? The World's Most Famous Art Heist, 100 Years On," Slate, 7 August 2011. Newsweek, "The Mona Lisa Thief," 29 September 1947, p. 97. Further reading "The Theft of the Mona Lisa: On Stealing the Worlds Most Famous Painting" (2011, ARCA Publications), a monography by Noah Charney Mona Lisa Is Missing (formerly The Missing Piece), a 2012 documentary by Joe Medeiros "The Mystery of the Misplaced Mona Lisa," a short mystery story by Ron Katz, https://www.thesleuthingsilvers.com External links Vanity Fair – May 2009. "Stealing Mona Lisa" by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler Saturday Evening Post: 100 Years Ago: The Mastermind Behind the