Giovanna Dratina
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Jeanne Dratine
- Genre
- Female
- Place of origin
- Carignano, Duchy of Savoy
- 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
- Waldensianism
Proceedings
- Start date
- 1 March 1560
- End date
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Turin
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Paride Provana, Captain of Justice; Corbis, member of the Senate of Piedmont
- Notes
Start end and date: interrogation and arrest
Sentence
- Court
- Inquisition of Turin
- Local judge
- Tommaso Giacomelli
- Sentence date
- 01 March 1560
- Sentence place
- Carignano, Duchy of Savoy
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
She was condemned after the anti-Waldensian edict of the Duke of Savoy (15 February 1560); notably, she had urged his husband Mathurin to not abjure the Reformed faith and refused herself to abjure
- Reason for conviction
- Pertinacious / impenitent
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 2 March 1560
- Authority
- Duke of Savoy
- Execution place
- Carignano, Duchy of Savoy
- Execution type
- Burned
- 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
- Unknown
- Sacraments imparted
- Unknown
- Notes for execution
Sources
- Letters
- 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
Crespin Jean, Histoire des vrays tesmoins de la verité de l’Evangile, [Geneva], 1570, p. 573
De la Place Pierre, Commentaires de l’estat de la religion et république soubs les Rois Henry et François Seconds, et Charles neuvième, 1565, p. 184
Ellis William, The Christian Keepsake and Missionary Annual, vol. 2, London-Paris-New York, Fisher, 1838, p. 90
Foxe John, Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, Touching Matters of the Church, vol. 2, London, 1583, p. 957
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. 73-74
Histoire memorable de la guerre faite par le duc de Savoye contre ses subjectz des vallees, ed. Enea Balmas, Vittorio Diena, Torino, Claudiana, 1972, pp. 82-83, 150-153
Johnstone John, Specimens of Sacred, Pathetic and Serious Poetry, Edinburgh-London, Oliver & Boyd-Simpkin, Marshall, 1855, p. 392
Léger Jean, Histoire generale des eglises evangeliques des Vallees de Piemont ou Vaudoises, vol. 2, Leyde, Jean le Carpentier, 1669, pp. 28, 34
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
Martirologio della libertà italiana. Glorie e sventure, Genova, Botto, 1852, pp. 62-63
Rorengo Marco Aurelio, Memorie historiche dell’introduttione dell’heresie nelle valli di Lucerna, Marchesato di Saluzzo, e altre di Piemonte, Torino, Tarino, 1649, p. 40
Stamp John Sundins, Martyrologia, or, Records of Religious Persecution: Being a New and Comprehensive Book of Martyrs, of Ancient and Modern Times, vol. 3, London, John Mason, 1851, p. 519
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, p. 97
Turino Giovanni Davide, Giovanna Mathurin, «La Rivista Cristiana», 1, 1873, pp. 361-365
- 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
Literature:
De Amicis Edmondo, Alle porte d’Italia, Roma, Sommaruga, 1884, p. 222