Pier Battista Botto
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Pier Battista Biotti, Pier Battista Botto, and Battista Biotti
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Savona, Republic of Genoa
- Date of birth
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- Marital status
- Married
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Merchant
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
- Calvinism: member of a heretical group in Savona
Proceedings
- Start date
- June 1580 - January 1581
- End date
- 30 March 1581
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Genoa
- Extradition
- Yes
- Other judges involved
- Bishop of Savona
- Notes
Start date: extradition from the bishop’s tribunal of Savona to the Inquisition of Genoa
End date: sentence
Sentence
- Court
- Inquisition of Genoa
- Local judge
- Giovanni Battista Borgo
- Sentence date
- 30 March 1581
- Sentence place
- Genoa, Republic of Genoa
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
- Reason for conviction
- Relapso
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- After 16 December 1581
- Authority
- Republic of Genoa
- Execution place
- Genoa, Republic of Genoa
- Execution type
- 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
It is not entirely clear whether Botto was executed: a letter dated December 16, 1581, attests to the intercession on his behalf by the doge of Genoa
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
- Decrees and acdf sources
ACDF, S.O., Decreta Sancti Officii, 1580-1581, cc. 295r, 330v
- Legal opinions consultations
- Registers of the condemned
- Other magistracies
- Petitions
Genoa, Archivio di Stato, Minute di lettere a cardinali, 2/2831, The Doge and the governors to cardinal Giustiniani, Genoa, 20 May 1581 (edited in Rosi, Storia delle Relazioni, pp. 228-229)
Archivio Apostolico Vaticano, Nunziatura di Genova, The Doge of Genoa to pope Gregory XIII, Genoa, 16 December 1581, 6 (partially edited in Rosi, Storia delle Relazioni, p. 203)
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