Bernardo Appiani
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Pallanza, State of Milan
- Date of birth
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- Marital status
- Unknown
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Physician
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- End date
- 27 April 1571
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Milan
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Nicolò Galliero, vicar of the archbishop of Milan
- Notes
Sentence
- Court
- Inquisition of Milan
- Local judge
- Angelo Zampa
- Sentence date
- 27 April 1571
- Sentence place
- Milan, State of Milan
- Crime category
- Magic & witchcraft and Unbelief / misbelief / heretical propositions
- List of crimes
He denied the presence of Christ in the Eucharist, the existence of Purgatory, the value of auricular confession, the cult of saints, the Free will; he possessed forbidden books, he was accused to deny the value of the good works for salvation, the intercession of saints, the Church authority in interpreting the Bible, the value of sacred images, the value of the Mass, and to sustain the doctrine of justification by faith; he was accused to believe in and practise magic
- Reason for conviction
- Contumacious
- Accessory penalties
- Confiscation of assets
Execution
- Execution date
- After 27 April 1571
- Authority
- Captain of Justice
- Execution place
- Milan, State of Milan
- Execution type
- Burned
- In effigy
- Yes
- After death
- No
- Presence of doctors / surgeons
- No
- Name of the doctors / surgeons
- Presence of comforters
- No
- Name of the comforters
- Presence of rebels / riots
- No
- Sacraments imparted
- No
- Notes for execution
Sources
- Letters
On Appiani’s escape:
Scipione Rebiba to Vincenzo Lauro, Rome, 23 June 1571 (edited in Nunziature di Savoia, vol. 1, p. 344)
Scipione Rebiba to Vincenzo Lauro, Rome, 7 July 1571 (edited in Nunziature di Savoia, vol. 1, p. 347)
On the confiscation of assets:
Milano, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, F 122 inf., Domenico Buelli to Carlo Borromeo, Novara, 9 May 1571, c. 144r
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Milano, Archivio di Stato, Culto, 2222
- 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
- Travel diaries
- Notarial acts and wills
- Expense registers and economic documents
On the confiscation of assets:
Milano, Archivio di Stato, Atti di Governo, Finanze Confische, 214, 215, 216
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
- Other