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Caravaggio dipinse magnifici quadri in cui la rappresentazione artistica rispecchia la violenza che ha caratterizzato la sua vita reale. Il suo nome emerge di continuo nei registri della polizia romana: l'offesa a due donne, il ferimento di un capo delle guardie, la causa per diffamazione portata avanti da un altro pittore per "versi offensivi", l'aggressione a un oste, il lancio di pietre contro le finestre di un'abitazione, per finire con l'uccisione di un uomo in una rissa, nella quale riuscì a malapena a salvarsi. Ottenuta la commissione del gran maestro Wignacourt di decorare la chiesa di La Valletta, si rifugiò a Malta, ma fu ferito durante un litigio e imprigionato. Fuggito a Napoli, fu sfigurato nel corso di una rissa al punto da divenire irriconoscibile. Durante la convalescenza si ammalò di febbre e morì all'età di trentanove anni. Questo romanzo racconta in quattro fasi la vita del pittore: la giovinezza e l'apprendistato a Milano; la protezione, quasi miracolosa, di un grande mecenate; i primi, misteriosi anni precedenti la sua andata a Roma, durante i quali incontra il Monsignore, un principe fattosi prete, e Maddalena, la donna che poserà per le sue opere e diverrà la sua amante; infine le sue peregrinazioni in esilio dopo la fuga da Roma a Napoli, Malta, Palermo, per poi tornare nuovamente a Napoli. Attraverso Gian, personaggio fittizio, assistente devoto di Caravaggio, Linda Murray descrive l'esistenza dell'artista, intrecciando i fili della sua turbolenta carriera.

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