Cecco d'Ascoli

Basic information

Patronymic
di Simone
Other names
Francesco Stabili
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Ascoli Piceno
Date of birth
1257-1285
Attributed date of birth
Yes
Age at the time of execution
Marital status
Last occupation / Qualification
university professor
Previous occupations
Religious status
Layperson
Religious order
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
1324
End date
15 September 1327
Courts involved
Extradition
Other judges involved
Lamberto da Cingoli
Notes

Sentence

Court
Local judge
Accursio Bonfantini
Sentence date
15 September 1327
Sentence place
Florence
Crime category
List of crimes
Reason for conviction
Accessory penalties
seizure of goods; burning of writings

Execution

Execution date
16 September 1327
Authority
Giacomo da Brescia (vicar)
Execution place
Florence
Execution type
burning at the stake
In effigy
No
After death
No
Presence of doctors / surgeons
Name of the doctors / surgeons
Presence of comforters
Name of the comforters
Presence of rebels / riots
Sacraments imparted
Notes for execution

Sources

Letters
Local inquisitorial trials and documents

Trial documents are only preserved in copies or summaries. The death sentence is preserved in:

Firenze, Biblioteca Riccardiana, ms. 673, f. 124r-v (transunto latino della sentenza del Lami, Catalogus codicum…235-236 IDEM, Lezioni di antichità toscana…II, p. 593ss; edito in Augusto Beccaria, I biografi di maestro Cecco d’Ascoli e le fonti per la sua storia e per la sua leggenda [estratto da «Memorie della Reale Accademia delle scienze di Torino», s. II, LVIII (1908)], p. 64)

Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, ms. 1895, ff. 12r-14v.

Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, plut.XXXVII.10, n. 127.

Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, plut.XXV.596, n. 20.

Milan, Biblioteca Trivulziana, ms. 30.

Decrees and acdf sources
Legal opinions consultations
Registers of the condemned
Other magistracies
Petitions
Confraternities
Medical treatises
Polemical histories and martyrologies
Theological and legal texts
Collections of sermons
Printed or manuscript notices and reports
Chronicles

Giovanni Villani, Nuova Cronica, edited by Giuseppe Porta, 3 vols., Parma, Fondazione Pietro Bembo – Ugo Guanda, 1990-91, II, pp. 570-571 (XI, XLI). 

Cronaca fiorentina di Marchionne di Coppo Stefani, edited by Niccolò Rodolico, Città di Castello, S. Lapi, 1903 [Rerum Italicarum Scriptores XXX/I], p. 154.

Travel diaries
Notarial acts and wills
Expense registers and economic documents

Archivio Apostolico Vaticano, Camera Apostolica, Collettorie, 250, f. 72v (partially published in Robert Davidsohn, Un libro di entrate e spese dell’inquisitore fiorentino (1322-1329), in «Archivio storico italiano», s. V, XXVII (1901), pp. 346-355: 353-354).

Memorial documents epitaphs etc
Iconography
Other