Caravaggio: A Novel

Few artists fascinate as much as Caravaggio and few artists have proved so elusive. Beyond his reputation as a violent, homosexual misfit given to public brawls and frequent arrest, ony a few real facts about his life are known. His flights from Rome, Naples, and Malta, the likelihood of him having killed a man, and his own possible murder in 1610 are the enigmatic traces of a life as shrouded in mystery as the subjects of his vigorously realistic paintings. In this novel, Christopher Peachment has set out to imaginatively re-invent this wild and dangerous character in all his blaspheming, raging and creative glory.