TRASCRIZIONE 🔗
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Speaker 1: He loved them. Caravaggio, written by Richard Vitterre based on his stage plane. He was a rock star of his time. His paintings were vivid, fierce, and defiant, and his life was no different. Well, you see in the art, you will find in the artist, and what you see in the artist, you.
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Speaker 2: Will find in the man.
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Speaker 1: Rome was the most violent city in the Western world. Two thirds of the population were men. They were former soldiers home from wars, priests, artists, and sculptors who came to Rome to be the next Michelangelo. Two thirds of the remaining female population were prostitutes. Caravaggio roamed the streets, choosing his models from the homeless the destitute. He cast a beggar to play his saint Peter, and he painted him just as he was with all these gouters and scars. His great competition was the admired and beloved and the Caracci.
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Speaker 2: Let me tell you to your face, as much as I despise your paintings, I admire them.
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Speaker 1: His great enemy was Ranuccio Tomasoni, a spoiled and wealthy aristocrat.
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Speaker 2: One day I will soak the piazza with your blood, and I will.
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Speaker 1: Soak it with yours, and his great love was the prostitute Lena. Have you never seen a woman before? Women?
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Speaker 2: I've seen you, I have.
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Speaker 1: His violent life exploded when he killed Ranuccio in a brawl in the Piazza del Popolo. Ranucca to escape a warrant for his arrest demanded by the Pope, Caravaccio's benefactor, Cardinal del Monte, secured him a commission to paint the portrait of the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta. Neither he nor Caravaccio knew that the inquisition was waiting for Caravaccio at the isolated edge of civilization Malta. There is no greater sin on this earth than duplicity. I do not have the courage for duplicity.
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Speaker 2: I will save your soul.
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Speaker 1: How will you save my soul?
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Speaker 2: Through pain? So