Publio Francesco Spinola

Basic information

Patronymic
Gabriele
Other names
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Como, Duchy of Milan
Date of birth
[1520]
Attributed date of birth
Yes
Age at the time of execution
47
Marital status
Married
Last occupation / Qualification
Preceptor
Previous occupations

School teacher

Religious status
Layperson
Religious order
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
July 1564
End date
Autumn 1566
Courts involved
Inquisition of Venice
Extradition
No
Other judges involved
Congregation of the Holy Office
Notes

Start date: imprisonment.

Sentence

Court
Inquisition of Venice
Local judge
Sentence date
Autumn 1566
Sentence place
Venice, Republic of Venice
Crime category
Formal heresy
List of crimes

“[…] nega la transustatione del sacramento, l’autorità di nostro Signore et tutti gli altri articoli che sono communi a i lutherani”, cit. in Paschini (1919), p. 181.

Trad.: “He denies the transubstantiation of the sacrament, the authority of Our Lord, and all the other articles common to the Lutherans”.

+ he accepts money from a foreign agent.

Reason for conviction
Pertinacious / impenitent
Accessory penalties
Confiscation of goods

Execution

Execution date
11 January 1567
Authority
Execution place
Venice, Republic of Venice
Execution type
Drowned
In effigy
No
After death
No
Presence of doctors / surgeons
Unknown
Name of the doctors / surgeons
Presence of comforters
Unknown
Name of the comforters
Presence of rebels / riots
No
Sacraments imparted
Unknown
Notes for execution

“nelle acque oltre il Lido” (outside the lagoon)

Sources

Letters
Gaeta Franco, Aldo Stella, eds., Nunziature di Venezia, Roma, Istituto storico italiano per l’età moderna e contemporanea, 1958-1963 (vol. 3, p. 33; vol. 8, p. 68-69).
Local inquisitorial trials and documents

Archivio di Stato di Venezia (ASV), Sant’Uffizio (SU), Processi, b. 11, fasc. “Contro Andrea De Ugoni”.

ASV, SU, Processi, b. 22, fasc. “Dionisio Gallo”.

ASV, SU, Processi, b. 22, fasc. “Lucengo Giangiacomo”.

ASV, SU, Processi, b. 20, fasc. “Giolito Gabriele”.

ASV, SU, Processi, b. 21, fasc. “Girolamo e Luigi Badoer”

ASV, SU, Processi, b. 37, fasc. “Gemma Gio Batta”.

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
Memorial documents epitaphs etc
Iconography
Other

Daniel Gerdes, Specimen Italiae Reformatae, Lugduni Batav., 1765, p. 91.