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82. Louis Richeome, The Pilgrime of Loreto, facsimile of the 1629 edition, English Recusant Literature 1558–1640, vol. 285, D. M. Rogers (ed.) (London, 1976), p. 33.
83. Thousands of pilgrims visited Loreto every year and their experience was carefully orchestrated. The pilgrimage diaries of the Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini, founded by Filippo Neri and supported by the patrons who paid for Caravaggio’s Madonna of Loreto, the Cavalletti family, contain much information about the structure of a visit to Loreto. They strongly suggest that the painter wanted his picture to evoke an actual pilgrimage.
84. The placement of Caravaggio’s works within the geography of Rome has received relatively scant consideration. Pamela Jones’s essay, ‘The Place of Poverty in Seicento Rome’, included in Altarpieces and Their Viewers, contains a penetrating analysis of the significance of the geographical locations of some of Caravaggio’s works.
85. See Helen Langdon, The Lives of Caravaggio, p. 90.
86. Ibid., p. 46.
87. See Walter Friedlaender, Caravaggio Studies, p. 284.
88. See G. A. Dell’Acqua and M. Cinotti, Il Caravaggio e il sue grandi opere da S. Luigi dei Francesi, p. 158.
89. It was left out of later editions.
90. See Jacob Hess, ‘Nuovo Contributo alla vita del Caravaggio’, Bolletino d’Arte, anno 26, ser. 3 (July 1932), pp. 42–4.
91. Rome’s criminal archives include a report written by the constable who arrested her. See Sandro Corradini, Materiali per un processo, document 38.
92. If this is so (which is certainly possible), he would have been using the phrase in the same straightforward sense as the one-eyed Bolognese corporal, possibly called Paulo Aldato, who appears to say something similar in a later criminal action involving Caravaggio. Aldato (if that was his name) is reported as saying that he wanted to visit ‘una sua puttana’ – one of his prostitutes – on a street nearby. There is no implication that Aldato was a pimp. See Sandro Corradini, Materiali per un processo, document 101.
93. He would later claim that he had tried to challenge Pasqualone to a fair and open fight, but probably only to put his own actions in a better light.
94. See Sandro Corradini, Materiali per un processo, documents 48–52, 54.
95. Giuliana Marcolini, ‘Cesare d’Este, Caravaggio, e Annibale Carracci: una duca, due pittori e una committenza “a mal termine” ’, in Sovrane passioni: studi sul collezionismo estense, Jadranka Bentini (ed.) (Milan, 1998), pp. 23–4. Ruggieri’s letter reporting Caravaggio’s riposte was dated 2 Mar. 1605.
96. Had it not been for the discovery of Masetti’s correspondence, the details of Caravaggio’s trip to Genoa would have remained unknown. See Sandro Corradini, Materiali per un processo, document 53.
97. Ibid., document 55.
98. Ibid., document 56.
99. See Walter Friedlaender, Caravaggio Studies, p. 285.
100. Ibid.
101. See Sandro Corradini, Materiali per un processo, document 58.
102. Ibid., document 59. This is a slightly free translation; Masetti uses the phrase ‘un’ altra questione’, meaning ‘another question’.
103. Ibid., document 67.
104. Ibid., document 68.
105. Ibid., document 71.
106. Carracci did eventually deliver his own picture for the duke, thought to be identical to the painter’s The Birth of the Virgin now in the Louvre.
107. See Helen Langdon, The Lives of Caravaggio, pp. 73–4.
108. See Luigi Spezzaferro, ‘La pala dei Palafrenieri’, Colloquio (1974), which reprints the documents from the archive of the confraternity associated with the commission.
109. Ibid.; the translation is given in John T. Spike, Caravaggio, where the painting appears as entry no. 48. The same is true for the two documents that follow. For a reproduction of this document in Caravaggio’s handwriting, see illustration no. 65.
110. See Helen Langdon, The Lives of Caravaggio, p. 90.
111. See Gabriele Paleotti, ‘Discorso intorno alle imagini sacre e profane’, in Trattati d’arte del Cinquecento fra Manierismo a Controriforma, vol. 2, P. Barocchi and P. Barocchi (eds.) (Bari, 1961), p. 370.