# A final febrile illness at Porto Ercole in July 1610 ends Caravaggio’s life after arrest confusion on the shore Date: 1610 ## The fact Britannica dates his death at Porto Ercole on 18 July 1610 after a febrile collapse following detention confusion. Local officers share the custody-medical file. It is one event. ## Context cv-death-1610 is the death date row. [Caravaggio](/people/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. Tuscan coast hospitals and Spanish garrison paperwork; bodies and belongings disputed. 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 independently narrate fever and shore detention around the Porto Ercole death. Official or archival record: Britannica — Caravaggio (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caravaggio; Encyclopaedia Britannica). ## Significance A fatal febrile illness under detention stress is an infectious-disease path. ## What is established and what is not Established: July 1610 febrile final illness in the biography file. Not established: a modern microbe name beyond received fever narratives. 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 `infectious-disease-transmission` 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. Keep distinct from the calendar death date row without inventing a conspiracy. 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 - Infectious-Disease Transmission: https://factrail.ai/drivers/infectious-disease-transmission ## 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-fever-final-1610