Girolamo de' Todeschi
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Girolamo de’ Tedeschi and Girolamo 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
- Unknown
- 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 believed only in what he could see; affixed defamatory placards; discarded candles lit by other faithful; urged others to join him in acts of desecration against religious images.
- Reason for conviction
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 29 November 1622
- Authority
- Tribunale Criminale del Torrone
- Execution place
- Bologna, Papal States, San Petronio
- 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
Sacraments 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.