Diego Gucciolone
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Bernardino da Montalto, Diego Giavolone, and Diego Giovolone
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Palermo, Kingdom of Sicily
- Date of birth
- 1585
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- 50
- Marital status
- Not applicable
- Last occupation / Qualification
- hermit friar
- Previous occupations
Friar Minor of the Observant branch
- Religious status
- Cleric
- Religious order
- Franciscans
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 1633
- End date
- 22 April 1635
- Courts involved
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Notes
The friar fled the Kingdom of Sicily and assumed a new identity to escape investigation by the Spanish Inquisition, though the year of this inquiry remains unknown; so the start date referes to the Roman Inquisition proceeding.
Sentence
- Court
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Local judge
- Sentence date
- 22 April 1635
- Sentence place
- Rome, Papal States, Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva
- Crime category
- Magic & witchcraft
- List of crimes
Having performed various acts of sorcery to bring about the death of Pope Urban VIII through rituals involving a wax effigy, with the aim of securing the election of Cardinal Felice Centini to the papacy.
- Reason for conviction
- crimen laesae maiestatis divinae et humanae (papal bull Inscrutabilis Iudiciorum Dei 1/04/1631)
- Accessory penalties
- Degradation from all major and minor ecclesiastical orders.
Execution
- Execution date
- 23 April 1635
- Authority
- Governor of Rome
- Execution place
- Rome, Papal States, Campo de' Fiori
- 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 San Giovanni Decollato
- Presence of rebels / riots
- No
- 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
- Theological and legal texts
- Collections of sermons
- Printed or manuscript notices and reports
Roma, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Sessoriano, ms. Sess. 270 (in M. Rosi, La congiura di Giacinto Centini contro Urbano VIII, pp. 366-369)
Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, mss. Vaticano Latino 7850; 8193; 8891
Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, mss. Urbinate Latino 1103; 1647; 1704; 1737
Venezia, Archizio di Stato, Senato. Dispacci Roma, filza 111, lettera del 28 aprile 1635
Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, It. XI, cod. 79 (=7231)
- Chronicles
Roma, Biblioteca Casanatense, n. 1336, Theodoro Ameyden, Vitae et Elogia Summorum Pontif. et Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae cardinalium, suo aevo defunctorum ad Urbanum filium
Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, ms. Barberiniano Latino, 4735, Andrea Nicoletti, Della vita di papa Urbano ottavo e istoria del suo pontificato, vol. 6.
- Travel diaries
- Notarial acts and wills
- Expense registers and economic documents
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
- Other