Andrea Vittori
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Benedetto Vittori
- Other names
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Bologna, Papal States
- Date of birth
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- Marital status
- Married
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- October 1566
- End date
- 22 March 1567
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Bologna
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Sentence
- Court
- Inquisition of Bologna
- Local judge
- Antonio Balducci
- Sentence date
- 22 March 1567
- Sentence place
- Bologna, Papal States, San Domenico
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
Form of calvinism: denied the presence of Christ in the Eucharist, affirming only a spiritual presence of Christ’s body and blood in the bread and wine; upheld the doctrine of justification solely through Christ and His blood, rejecting the necessity of works as well as all means of intercession such as saints, jubilees, indulgences, pilgrimages, and fasts; denied the existence of purgatory, the efficacy of Masses for the dead, and regarded the Mass as a human institution; rejected papal authority, considering him the Antichrist.
- Reason for conviction
- Pertinacious / impenitent
- Accessory penalties
- Seizur
Execution
- Execution date
- 22 March 1567
- Authority
- Tribunale Criminale del Torrone
- Execution place
- Bologna, Papal States, San Petronio
- Execution type
- Burned in effigy
- In effigy
- Yes
- 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
- Unknown
- Sacraments imparted
- No
- Notes for execution
A paper effigy bearing his name was burned.
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
- Decrees and acdf sources
- Legal opinions consultations
- Registers of the condemned
- Other magistracies
Bologna, Archivio di Stato, Tribunale del Torrone, Atti Processuali, n. 393, anno 1567, cc. 313-319.
- Petitions
Bologna, Biblioteca dell’Archiginnasio di Bologna, ms. B. 43, c. 25r.
- 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
Bologna, Archivio Generale Arcivescovile di Bologna, Ricuperi Attuariali, filza 159, 6 luglio 1569. (edited in: Dall’Olio Guido, Eretici e inquisitori nella Bologna del Cinquecento, p. 381).
- Expense registers and economic documents
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
- Other