# Caravaggio dies at Porto Ercole on 18 July 1610 as a completed death on a pardon journey, cause remaining disputed Date: 1610 ## The fact National Gallery and Britannica print 18 July 1610 as death at Porto Ercole while returning toward a possible Roman pardon. Fever, wound, and later lead hypotheses remain disputed; this catalog does not pick a unique medical coefficient. Scipione Borghese’s hoped-for pictures are context. It is one event. ## Context A death on the road after homicide, knighthood, and expulsion is a humanitarian end-of-itinerary path, not a martyrdom minted here. Uffizi Medusa and Borghese canvases are earlier objects, not this day. 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. Lived 1571–1610. Patrons, chapel rectors, the Order of St John, and later museum pages share the file. Legal incidents are stored as documented process, not as later legend. Ranuccio Tomassoni is not affiliated_with. Complex contribution is required except where the killing is direct. 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 National Gallery and Britannica independently describe the 1610 death. Official or archival record: National Gallery — Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/michelangelo-merisi-da-caravaggio; The National Gallery, London). ## Significance A completed early death after a capital itinerary is a humanitarian path of high confidence on the date, low on unique pathology. ## What is established and what is not Established: 18 July 1610 death at Porto Ercole in standard lives. Not established: a unique laboratory cause. 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. The driver `humanitarian-access` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. 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. Do not treat later tomb publicity as 1610. 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 - Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access ## Sources - https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/michelangelo-merisi-da-caravaggio - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-death-1610