August 28 - Painter Giovanni Baglione files suit in Rome for libel against Caravaggio, Orazio Gentileschi, Ottavio Leoni and Filipo Trisegni in connection with some unflattering poems circulated around the city over the preceding summer. Caravaggio continues to criticise Baglione's work in court and is held in the Tor di Nona prison for a few weeks before being placed under house arrest.[1]
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