Caravaggio’s victim was Ranuccio Tomassoni, and he was what we would today call a gangster, coming from a wealthy Roman family. But how exactly did he lose his life? Was this a planned murder, or a brawl that got out of control? Caravaggio was sentenced to death by beheading in absentia, with a bounty placed on his head. The court even set an open bounty for him to be brought to justice, dead or alive. Let us uncover why the story of the killing…
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