Author: Philip Farrugia Randon

Publisher: AVC Publishers

Format: Hardback, Full Colour

No of Pages: 336

After killing a man in a duel in Rome. Caravaggio absconded to Naples and subsequently sailed to Malta, which was then ruled by the Knights of Malta.  Anxious to see Caravaggio become a knight, the Grand Master successfully begged the Pope to exceptionally approve Caravaggio's knighthood, in spite of his past.  But Caravaggio had not changed! Shortly after his knighthood, the artist was again in trouble.  He was arrested and imprisoned but managed to mysteriously escape from Malta.  As a result, he was formally expelled from the Order "like a rotten and fetid limb".

Philip Farrugia Randon narrates Caravaggio's eventfull stay in Malta by injecting life to all relative documentation known to date, discussing probabilities, placing the artist in a living context and examining the paintings he completed within this period.