Goffredo Varaglia
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Giaffredo
- Other names
- Giaffredo Varaglia, Theofredus Varaglia, Geoffrey Varaille, Geoffroi Varaille, and Geoffrey Varagle
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Busca, Duchy of Savoy
- Date of birth
- 1507
- Attributed date of birth
- Yes
- Age at the time of execution
- 51
- Marital status
- Not applicable
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Cleric
- Religious order
- Franciscans
- Accusations
- Waldensianism
Proceedings
- Start date
- 1557/11/17
- End date
- 1558/02/14
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Turin
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Parliament of Turin: Emé de St. Julien, third president, Girolamo Porporato and nine others; Andrea de Monte Dei, vicar of the archbishop of Turin
- Notes
Start date: imprisonement
Sentence
- Court
- Inquisition of Turin
- Local judge
- Tommaso Giacomelli
- Sentence date
- Sentence place
- Turin, Duchy of Savoy
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
He was retained heretic and schismatic for having preached doctrines contrary to the Church and French royal edicts, he sustained the doctrine of justification by faith, he denied the value of the good works for salvation, he sustained the doctrine of predestination, he denied the value of auricular confession, the value of the indulgences and the intercession of saints, he retained the veneration of sacred images idolatrous, he denied the existence of Purgatory, he considered the preaching of the pope and the clergy ungodly. He denied the spiritual and temporal power of the pope and his authority in convoking the Councils, in giving precepts, in interpreting the Bible.
- Reason for conviction
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 29 March 1558
- Authority
- Parliament of Turin
- Execution place
- Turin, Duchy of Savoy, Piazza Castello
- Execution type
- Burned
- In effigy
- No
- After death
- No
- Presence of doctors / surgeons
- Unknown
- 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
John Calvin to Goffredo Varaglia, 17 December 1557 (edited in Calvin John, Opera quae supersunt omnia. Ad fidem editionum principum et authenticarum ex parte etiam codicum manu scriptorum, additis prolegomenis literariis, annotationibus criticis, annalibus Calvinianis indicibusque novis et copiosissmis, ed. William Baum, Edward Cunitz, Edward Reuss, vol. 16, Brunsvigae, Schwetschke, 1877, p. 744)
Goffredo Varaglia to the Waldensian community of Bibiana, Turin, 12 January 1558 (edited in Papini, Il processo di G. Varaglia, pp. 62-65)
Goffredo Varaglia to the Waldensian community of Bibiana, Turin, 18 February 1558 (edited in Papini, Il processo di G. Varaglia, pp. 65-72)
Anonymous letter on the execution (edited in Lentolo, Historia and Papini, Il processo di G. Varaglia, pp. 73-74)
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
- Decrees and acdf sources
- Legal opinions consultations
- Registers of the condemned
- Other magistracies
- Petitions
- Confraternities
- Medical treatises
- Polemical histories and martyrologies
Bert Amedeo, I Valdesi ossiano i cristiani-cattolici secondo la Chiesa primitiva abitanti le così dette valli di Piemonte, Torino, Gianini e Fiore, 1849, pp. 435-438
Brez Jacques, Histoire des Vaudois, ou des habitants des vallées occidentales du Piémont, vol. 1, Paris, 1796, p. 61
Crespin Jean, Cinquieme partie du recueil des martyrs, qui en ces derniers temps en France en Flandre, Espagne, Italie & autres regions lointaines ont constamment enduré la mort pour la verité du Seigneur, [Genève], 1563, pp. 398-423
Foxe John, Rerum in Ecclesia gestarum quae postremis et periculosis his temporibus evenerunt commentarii, vol. 2, Basileae, per Nicolaum Brylingerum, 1563, pp. 334-335
Gerdes Daniël, Specimen Italiae reformatae. Sive observata quaedam ad historiam renati in Italia tempore reformationis euangelii, una cum syllabo reformatorum Italorum, Lugduni, J. Le Maire – Corn. Van Hoogeveen, Jun., 1765, pp. 127-132
Gilles Pierre, Histoire ecclésiastique des Eglises Réformées, recueillies en quelques Valées de Piedmont, et circonuoisines, autrefois appelées Eglises Vaudoises, commençant des l’an 1160 de nostre Seigneur, et finissant en l’an mil sex cent quarante trois, Genève, Iean de Tournes, 1644, pp. 65-66
Léger Jean, Histoire generale des eglises evangeliques des Vallees de Piemont ou Vaudoises, vol. 2, Leyde, Jean le Carpentier, 1669, p. 29
Lentolo Scipione, Historia delle grandi e crudeli persecutioni fatte ai tempi nostri in Provenza, Calabria e Piemonte contra il popolo, che chiamano valdese, ed. Teofilo Gay, Torre Pellice, Tipografia Alpina, 1906, pp. 87-113
Maccrie Thomas, Istoria del progresso e dell’estinzione della riforma in Italia nel secolo sedicesimo, Parigi, Baudry, 1835, pp. 265-267
Miolo Gerolamo, Historia breve et vera de gl’affari de i Valdesi delle Valli (1587), ed. E. Balmas, Torino, Claudiana, 1971, pp. 94-95
Monastier Antoine, Histoire de l’Église vaudoise depuis son origine et des Vaudois du Piémont jusqu’à nos jours, vol. 1, Toulouse, Société des Livres religieux, 1847, pp. 228-232
Muston Alexis, L’Israël des Alpes. Première histoire complète des Vaudois du Piémont et de leurs colonies, composée en grande partie sur des documents inédits, avec l’indication des sources et des autorités, vol. 1, Paris, Marc Ducloux, 1851, pp. 227-236
Parander Jean-Jacques, Abrégé de l’histoire des Vaudois depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu’à l’an 1871, Pignerol, Joseph Chiantore, 1872, p. 52
Salig Christian August, Vollständige Historie der Augspurgischen Confession, vol. 2, Halle, Reeger, 1733, p. 63
Sleidanus Johannes, Göbler Justinus, De Statu Religionis Et Reipublicae Commentarii […] Adiecta estetiam appendix, seu continuatio eorundem Commentariorum, Ab anno Christi MDLVI, Francofurti ad Moenum, per Petrum Fabricium, 1568, pp. 659-660
Storia delle persecuzioni e guerre contro il popolo chiamato valdese che abita nelle Valli del Piemonte, di Angrogna, Luserna, S. Martino, Perosa e altre, a far tempo dall’anno 1555 fino al 1561, ed. Enea Balmas, Carlo Alberto Theiler, Torino, Claudiana, 1975, pp. 92-93
Stoughton John, Footprints of Italian Reformers, London, The Religious Tract Society, 1881, pp. 8-10
The History of the Church of Christ, Previous to the Reformation Consisting Chiefly of Sketches of the Lives, and Extracts from the Writings, of Christians, During the Early and Middle Ages. Containing from the sixth to the twelfth century. With an account of the Waldenses to the commencement of the nineteenth century, vol. 3, London, Clowes, 1840, pp. 387-388
The Mountain Refuge, Or, Sure Help in Time of Need. A Tale of the Vaudois in the Sixteenth Century, London, Seeley, Jackson and Halliday, 1862, pp. 52-57
Un martyr piémontais, ou la place du château de Turin en 1558, in «Feuille religieuse du canton de Vaud», 17, 1848, pp. 289-300
- Theological and legal texts
- Collections of sermons
Beruatto Serafino, Sermoni e conferenze, Venezia, Istituto Evangelico Industriale, 1891, pp. 30-31
- Printed or manuscript notices and reports
- Chronicles
- Travel diaries
- Notarial acts and wills
- Expense registers and economic documents
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
Plaques: Turin, piazza Castello, memorial plaque (reproduced in Papini, Il processo di G. Varaglia, pp. 40-41)
Toponymy: Via Goffredo Varaglia, Busca, Italy
- Iconography
- Other
Literature:
De Amicis Edmondo, Alle porte d’Italia, Roma, Sommaruga, 1884, p. 239
