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The Seven Works of Mercy is installed for the Pio Monte della Misericordia in Naples as a completed public charity-altar

Dated 14 January 1607: The Seven Works of Mercy is installed for the Pio Monte della Misericordia in Naples as a completed public charity-altar. In the causal graph this event strengthens Humanitarian Access, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — a worsening welfare path.

Sources: [1][2]

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Shared work with the Monte’s officers remains named. Later tourist viewing is not 1607.

Context

It does not rebate the homicide.

Caravaggio’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

Lived 1571–1610. 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.

Why it matters

It is not a unique poor-relief series.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Caravaggio

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Naples, Malta, Sicily, Porto Ercole, 1606–10Encyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Met Heilbrunn — Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) and His FollowersMetropolitan Museum of Art · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Britannica prints the Neapolitan Pio Monte commission of the Seven Works of Mercy as a completed public altar after the 1606 arrival.

Britannica and Met Heilbrunn independently describe the Naples mercy altar.

Established: 1606–07 Pio Monte picture as a public commission. Not established: unique later-charity coefficients.

Caravaggio did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorCaravaggio
  2. contributed toFactThe Seven Works of Mercy is installed for the Pio Monte della Misericordia in Naples as a completed public charity-altar
  3. strengthensDriverHumanitarian Access
  4. strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)

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Factrail. (2026). The Seven Works of Mercy is installed for the Pio Monte della Misericordia in Naples as a completed public charity-altar. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-seven-works-1607

https://factrail.ai/facts/cv-seven-works-1607

Accessed 16 October 2026.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed

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