# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francesco-carotta
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:24:15.762Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francesco-carotta"
name: "Francesco Carotta"
slug: "francesco-carotta"
description: "Francesco Carotta is an Italian writer who developed a theory that the historical Jesus was based on the life of Julius Caesar, that the Gospels were a rewriting of Roman historical sources, and that Christianity developed from the cult of the deified Caesar."
tagline: "Independent Italian ancient historian and religious historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/FrancescoCarotta.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1946"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.11
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.478762666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3027305/"
    handle:    "nm3027305"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Carotta"
    title: "Francesco Carotta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "فرانسيسكو كاروتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Carotta"
    title: "Francesco Carotta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Carotta"
    title: "Francesco Carotta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Carotta"
    title: "Francesco Carotta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Carotta"
    title: "Francesco Carotta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q336955"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump