Commissioned by Francesco Nuti of Assisi in 1516 following his marriage to Roderica Varini from Foligno, it was bought by the Deli family in the early nineteenth century. It has a typically Renaissance facade in pink limestone from Mount Subasio, resting against the pre-existing medieval tower. The courtyard is surrounded by a red brick portico and has a finely decorated well in the center. The large carved doorway opening onto Via Gramsci, as well as the two smaller, rusticated doors on the first floor, is decorated with the coat of arms of the Nuti family (a dragon on a mountain with three peaks) and that of the Varini family (two lilies on a mountain with six peaks). The first floor, home to the children's section of the municipal library, has many original elements: inside a niche from the end of the fifteenth century, there are frescoes depicting the Madonna of Loreto and, in the sub-arch, San Giovanni and San Feliciano. On the mantel of the monumental fireplace, in the large room that takes its name from it, used for many of the library's activities, one may read the motto of the Nuti family: “Volenti nil difficile” or “nothing is hard to those who have will” (nothing is difficult for those who want it). One of the reading rooms is completely decorated, probably by the artist Francesco Bottazzi, with the chariot of Apollo on the vault and the four seasons on the walls; another room has a precious ceramic tile ceiling. The second floor of the building houses the Foligno section of Perugia’s State Archives.
