Fillide Melandroni (Siena, 1581 – Rome, 1618) was an Italian courtesan and friend of the painter Caravaggio, who used her as a model in several of his compositions.

[1] Her father, Enea, died when she was young and in February 1593 her mother, Cinzia, took Fillide and her brother Sivilo to Rome.

[5] Melandroni and Bianchini were arrested in April 1594 for being outside the brothel quarter after dusk, suspected of soliciting;[6] they were just 13 and 14 years old respectively at the time.

One of the most notable was Italian banker and art collector Vincenzo Giustiniani who was the patron of the artist Caravaggio.

[13] She may have appeared even more frequently - a considerable number of Caravaggio's works are now lost - but she seems to vanish from his paintings after 1599, except perhaps in The Entombment of Christ (1603).

[19] In 1612 Melandroni was forced to leave Rome by the family of Venetian poet and libretto writer Giulio Strozzi, who was her current lover.