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Exercise III. Intone the text and read it.
One of the greatest Italian painters Michelangelo Merisi was born in 1573 and he was
called Caravaggio after his native town in Lombardy. Caravaggio lived on the fringe of
respectable society and his short life was marked by violence and disaster. He was in constant
trouble with authority and he had to flee Rome in 1606 after the murder of a man. He was
pardoned but soon he died of Malaria at the age of 37. He painted many famous pictures but
his favourite one was "The Creation of Adam". Caravaggio's paintings were condemned by
many artists and critics in Italy but two of the greatest painters in the 17th century Rembrandt
and Velasquez considered themselves to be his followers.
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