How many details does it take to tell the story of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio?

Francesco Niccolini and Luigi D’Elia tell in their own way another fragment of the wilderness they hold so dear.

After White Fang, Moby Dick, and Tarzan, they turn away from great literature and plunge into the most sublime and abysmal painting, that of Caravaggio.

This is the third biographical tale in their production, following André and Dorine and Cammelli a Barbiana. They are producing this new work together with Enzo Vetrano and Stefano Randisi, who are trying their hand at directing a monologue for the first time.

All together they try to traverse the golden age of Italian and European culture, that early seventeenth century that saw the blossoming of the greatest masterpieces and revolutions in Western thought, art and science-Shakespeare, Galileo, Cervantes, Gesualdo da Venosa and Caravaggio.

All together. All born and all died in the same years. All moved by the same scandalous ardor.

The show was produced as part of the Mesagne Capitale Cultura di Puglia 2023 – Umana Meraviglia project that arose from the cultural and social process that took the small Apulian municipality from a marginal territory to a finalist as Italian Capital of Culture 2024 and now a reference in the art scene of Southern Italy.