Short novel
written in first person of lucky sicilian writer father of "Commissario Montalbano." This time is the same Camilleri
that tell of a his adventure, not true, in Sicily, where an absconding, grateful to him, for having relieved with his novels his pain of his dead wife, he take him in a secret
place where him show to him a diary
written by painter Caravaggio while his adventures between Malta and Sicily. The writer, so, copy some pages, that they''re those that can read in the book, written in italian of ''600. Caravaggio flees to Rome to Naples, where a magic gave him an ointement that can help him to stand the seen of sun, that, for him, to that moment, it will be black, creaing strange visiv effects. Him went to Malta, to be appointed Cavaliere and flees to sentenced to death by the courts pontifical, but an accident with a member of Law that governs the island, forces to stay in Sicily, where he went to Agrigento, Naxos, Messina to Palermo and here he took a ferry for Rome. At the point the book stops. Camilleri leave the secret place and come back to Rome. Few time after this he comes to know the absconding was found dead in Sicily.