Inspired by the opera "I Pagliacci" (Ruggero Leoncavallo), "The devil in me" (Silvio / Arlecchino) belongs to a trilogy together with "All the erratic" (Canio / Pagliaccio) and "La commedia è finita!" ( Nedda / Colombina).

"Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.
Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God,
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells
In being deprived of everlasting bliss?"

("Doctor Faustus", Christopher Marlowe)

Pedro Mainman is a researcher of human nature, expresses what he perceives of it in canvases. Finds and shares the immense wealth of the being. Investigates and discovers. "My inspiration is human emotions" and so are the stories that these suggest; the human beings, their lives, real or fictitious, almost archetypal and his own life adventure.