In 1449, Jacopo's Adoration appears on the Florentine art market and fetches a large sum. Envious, Lippi is outraged and orders a gang of thugs to locate Jacopo's residence in the Tuscan countryside. Not only do they discover a third Adoration, but, they find the recent correspondence between Jacopo and Benedetto, correspondence indicating that Jacopo has not complied with either of their demands. Days later, Jacopo, at the young age of thirty-one, is found murdered in his bed, Bendetto's body, covered in self-inflicted knife wounds, lying lifeless next to his.