Pellegrino de' Todeschi
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Pellegrino de' Tedeschi and Pellegrino Todeschi
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Bologna, Papal States
- Date of birth
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- Marital status
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 08 August 1622
- End date
- 28 November 1622
- Courts involved
- Congregation of the Holy Office, Inquisition of Bologna
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Francesco Maria Sinibaldi, vicar of the bishop of Bologna
- Notes
Sentence
- Court
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Local judge
- Paolo Vicari da Garessio
- Sentence date
- 28 November 1622
- Sentence place
- Bologna, Papal States, San Petronio
- Crime category
- Formal heresy and Sacrilege & blasphemy
- List of crimes
He broke a statuette of Christ; disfigured sacred images with a dagger; defiled the edicts of the Holy Office and church altars; profaned images of the Virgin Mary; authored offensive letters and placards; retained the Blessed Sacrament after receiving Communion, subsequently piercing and trampling upon the consecrated Host.
- Reason for conviction
- Abuser of hosts
- Accessory penalties
- His right hand was cut off.
Execution
- Execution date
- 29 November 1622
- Authority
- Tribunale Criminale del Torrone
- Execution place
- Bologna, Papal States, Piazza del Mercato
- Execution type
- Hanged and Burned
- In effigy
- No
- After death
- No
- Presence of doctors / surgeons
- Unknown
- Name of the doctors / surgeons
- Presence of comforters
- Yes
- Name of the comforters
- Arciconfraternita di Santa Maria della Morte
- Presence of rebels / riots
- No
- Sacraments imparted
- Yes
- Notes for execution
Sacramentds imparted: confession, communion
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, Giustiziati e condannati ai lavori forzati 1613 – 1674, Rubrica 1
Bologna, Archivio di Stato, Tribunale del Torrone, 5246, cc. 101r-104v
- Petitions
- Confraternities
- Medical treatises
- Polemical histories and martyrologies
- Theological and legal texts
- Collections of sermons
- Printed or manuscript notices and reports
- Chronicles
Astolfi Felice, Historia universale delle immagini miracolose della Gran Madre di Dio…, Venezia, Li Sessa, 1624;
Campeggi Ridolfo, Racconto de gli heretici iconomiasti giustiziati in Bologna…, Bologna, Pelegrino Golfarini, 1622.
Faleoni Celso, Memorie historiche della Chiesa Bolognese e suoi pastori, Bologna, Giacomo Monti, 1649.
Maraviglioso et horribil caso occorso nella città di Bologna, di quattro scelerati, e sacrileghi heretici, ch’imbrattavano le sacre imagini dipinte per la detta città, scoperti per intercessione della Sacratissima Imagine del Santiss. Rosario, dove s’intende il processo di tutta la vita loro, et la sentenza, et giustitia esequita contro di loro li 28 novembre del 1623, composto per Al. Ghi. et dispensato per Domenico Barbieri di Bologna, in Parma, Cremona, Brescia, Verona et in Bologna per Nicolò Tebaldini 1623.
- Travel diaries
- Notarial acts and wills
- Expense registers and economic documents
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
- Other
Bologna, Biblioteca Comunale dell’Archiginnasio di Bologna, ms. B. 1865, c. 335r; ms. B. 1866, nn. 56, 66, 68-86, 88, 90, 90bis, 92, 97.