eprintid: 9566
rev_number: 16
eprint_status: archive
userid: 21
dir: disk0/00/00/95/66
datestamp: 2025-07-08 14:59:37
lastmod: 2025-07-08 14:59:44
status_changed: 2025-07-08 14:59:37
type: article
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creators_name: Berra, Giacomo
title: L’equivoco di un nome: il “Caravaggio” citato in una lettera al cardinale Federico Borromeo non era il pittore ma il banchiere Giuseppe Caravaggio
subjects: ddc-700
divisions: i-9
cterms_swd: Caravaggio, Giuseppe
cterms_swd: Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi, da
cterms_swd: Borromeo, Federico
cterms_swd: Biblioteca Ambrosiana
cterms_swd: Geschichte 1560-1630
abstract: The author refutes the hypothesis proposed by Maurizio Calvesi in 1975 and reiterated in his later work, according to which the “Caravaggio” mentioned in a 1607 letter addressed to Cardinal Federico Borromeo was the painter
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Through new extensive archival documentation, the scholar – who had already raised well-founded doubts about this identification in a 2021 essay – demonstrates that the reference was in fact to Giuseppe Caravaggio, a banker and merchant also in the service of Cardinal Borromeo. This banker managed some financial transactions related to the acquisition of manuscripts destined for the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, which would be inaugurated in 1609. The essay carefully reconstructs the roles of some collaborators who served Cardinal Federico and emphasizes the importance of
rigorous analysis of historical and archival sources in order to avoid misinterpretations and distorted hypotheses, particularly in the biography of a prominent figure such as the Lombard painter Caravaggio.
date: 2025
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/artdok.00009566
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-artdok-95665
language: ita
vgwort_code: 9e5fcc03e8de404eb217fdd18c4747a9
bibsort: BERRAGIACOLEQUIVOCOD2025
full_text_status: public
themen: T11
themen: T26
title_lat: L'equivoco di un nome: il "Caravaggio" citato in una lettera al cardinale Federico Borromeo non era il pittore ma il banchiere Giuseppe Caravaggio
laender: LIt
oa_type: gold
citation:   Berra, Giacomo  (2025) L’equivoco di un nome: il “Caravaggio” citato in una lettera al cardinale Federico Borromeo non era il pittore ma il banchiere Giuseppe Caravaggio.       
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/9566/1/Berra_L_equivoco_di_un_nome_2025.pdf