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Of particular interest is the presence of a bearded man clinging to the catafalque, whose hands are cut off by the angel holding a sword, placed on the right. The episode is described in the apocryphal gospels, taken up in the medieval text of the Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine. They tell of the attempt by the Jewish prince of priests to overturn the funeral catafalque of the Virgin during the transport to the tomb, which failed due to divine intervention personified by the action of the angel. An iconographic representation that was not very widespread in Italy and rare from the second half of the 16th century onwards, when the Council of Trent (1545-1563) recommended canonical texts as a source of inspiration in the figurative field in place of the apocryphal ones, which were abundantly used in the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance. Some scholars interpret the figure in an anti-Jewish sense - hostility justified by the economic power achieved by the Jews through the practice of usury - of the communities of southern Lazio and in particular of the local one, where there was a strong presence of Jews, accepted in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries but progressively banned by the papacy at the end of the sixteenth century. Moreover, in 1603 the Caetani obtained from Clement VIII the concession to establish a Monte di Pietà in Sermoneta to counter the policy of usury, the prerogative of the Jewish people.