“Della Sapienza” Theater;;In the second half of the 18th century;among the nine Theaters existing in Perugia;the Sapienza Vecchia bore the name and the role of the Teatro Nazionale dell’Accademia di Belle Lettere ed Arti;distinguishing itself for its rich annual repertory of opera and prose works;both Italian and foreign.;Hosted in the monumental building of the Sapienza;which in 1362 was the first University College in Italy;the theater probably hosted the first acting of the young Carlo Goldoni—who followed his father;personal practitioner of a noble Perugian family—in the role of Mirandolina.The theater underwent some restructuring work in the first half of the 19th century that saw the building of a new wing on the northern side to host the large stage and scenic machinery;reproducing the same typology as the large lyric theaters like La Scala of Milan on a smaller scale.;At that time an elegant gallery was built together with a gas illumination system.The decorations of the Audience Hall and of the Sala Rossa—Red Hall—next to it were commissioned to the Perugian painters Lemmo Rossi Scotti and Matteo Tassi.