# A capital ban follows the May 1606 Tomassoni killing, making Caravaggio a condemned fugitive under papal justice

Date: 1606

## The fact

Britannica dates the aftermath of the 28 May 1606 Tomassoni killing as a bando capitale that authorised killing the fugitive with impunity. Police bargelli share enforcement. Flight south is a neighbouring displacement row.

It is one event.

## Context

Tomassoni killing and flight rows neighbour this.

Caravaggio’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Papal Rome’s homicide law; noble Tomassoni family’s pressure.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica and Met Heilbrunn independently describe the capital ban after the 1606 killing.

Official or archival record: Britannica — Caravaggio (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

A capital outlaw decree is a justice path of lethal legal exposure.

## What is established and what is not

Established: post-28 May 1606 capital ban in the biography file. Not established: a surviving sealed parchment cited here.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Caravaggio.

They are not a public rating.

Caravaggio did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Distinct from the killing blow and from the geographic flight. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Caravaggio.
Caravaggio did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Distinct from the killing blow and from the geographic flight. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Caravaggio.

## People

- Caravaggio: https://factrail.ai/people/caravaggio

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio
- https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/crvg/hd_crvg.htm

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-capital-sentence-1606