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Various authors: I viaggi di Caravaggio, Jessica Gould, Diego Cantalupi
By Diego Cantalupi
By Diego Cantalupi and Jessica Gould. By Anonymous, Benedetto Ferrari, Giovanni Antonio Rigatti, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger, Laurencinus Romanus, Domenico Mazzocchi (1592-1665), Giovanni Felice Sances (1600-1679), and Tarquinio Merula. Classical. CD. Naxos #MVC017043. Published by Naxos (NX.MVC017043).
Item Number: NX.MVC017043
Rome, May 28 1606, Between the hours of seven and ten in the evening, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, painter and scholar of S. Luica, after a quarrel during a game of 'pallacorda' (tennis), mortally injured Ranuccio Tommasoni. In reality, the game of tennis was only a pretese: Caravaggio had had a relationship with Lavinia Giugioli, wife of Tommasoni, from which issued a daughter. But that wasn't all: Tommasoni would have hated Caravaggio also for 'professional' motivations. Despite originating from a wealthy family, Tommasoni was reputedly stopped by the Vatican police in the company of a prostiture, and determined to be her pimp, putting him in the company of and competition with Caravaggio who during his Roman sojourn would have engaged in the same profession.