# Documented 1604–05 assaults and complaints, including the 29 July 1605 notary attack, are completed legal incidents

Date: 1605

## The fact

National Gallery and standard lives print a sequence of Roman complaints — weapons, wounds, a 1605 attack on a notary — as completed police-and-court incidents before 1606. Officers and complainants share the file. Legend is refused where unsourced.

It is one event.

## Context

This is accountability for documented violence, not a temperament theory. Tomassoni’s 1606 death is a later, heavier 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.

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 pre-1606 legal scrapes.

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

Completed complaints of assault are a justice path. They are not a unique homicide series until 1606.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1604–05 legal incidents in the public biographical file. Not established: every later anecdote as a police docket.

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. Keep 1605 distinct from 28 May 1606. 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.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-legal-brawls-1605