I, Carravagio

-Using his connections with Loyola Maramount as a professor to get the school behind the book.  

-Eugenio is hiring a publicist to help on the promotion end.  

-We will be doing physical ARCs between 50-100.  

-The late Gian DiTrapano was a big fan of Eugenio and we will mention that relationship when promoting.  

-We’ll set up Eugenio to talk on art and history podcasts. He did a lot of research on the book and can talk about Caravaggio. 

The famous bi-sexual libertine who would be more at home on Tinder than at a Roman Cathedral, gallivants through the streets like brush strokes to become a Baroque 16th century icon.

The year is 1604 and Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio is a superstar, his blockbuster paintings packing the pews of Rome. Caravaggio should be reveling in prosperity, but the artistic trailblazer and nefarious street-brawler is his own worst enemy. While the genius paints masterpieces, the ruffian in him can’t stay out of jail. Caravaggio is a man at existential odds with himself until falling in love with Lena Antognetti, the prostitute modeling his newest Virgin pictures. Caravaggio paints Lena into a life of wealth and celebrity, but the power couple’s provocative fame earns them a horde of resentful and jealous enemies.

 I, Caravaggio dramatizes the superstar’s psychological unraveling under the sexual and political pressures of the Catholic Reformation.