Bernardo Brascaglia

Basic information

Patronymic
Other names
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio
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
Summer of 1549
End date
18 January 1567
Courts involved
Inquisition of Bologna
Extradition
No
Other judges involved
Girolamo Menghini, auditore of Tribunale Criminale del Torrone
Notes

Start date refers to first trial and first abjuration

Sentence

Court
Inquisition of Bologna
Local judge
Antonio Balducci
Sentence date
18 January 1567
Sentence place
Bologna, Papal States, San Domenico
Crime category
Formal heresy
List of crimes

Heresies on the Eucharist, denial of the Mass, justification by grace alone, denial of the value of indulgences, denial of the intercession of the saints, denial of free will, considers the Pope the Antichrist, denial of the existence of forbidden foods.

Reason for conviction
Relapso
Accessory penalties

Execution

Execution date
19 January 1567
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
Unknown
Notes for execution

Sources

Letters
Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Decrees and acdf sources
Legal opinions consultations
Registers of the condemned

Bologna, Archivio di Stato, Sala Consultazione, ms. Catalogo di tutte le giustizie eseguite in Bologna, c. 26.

Other magistracies

Bologna, Archivio di Stato, Tribunale del Torrone, Atti processuali, reg. 393, cc. 59v-61r, 56r-57r; reg. 395, anno 1567, c. 57-61.

 

Petitions
Confraternities

Bologna, Biblioteca Comunale dell’Archiginnasio di Bologna, Ospedali, Arciconfraternita e ospedale di S. Maria della Morte, Libro dei morti dell’Arciconfraternita di S. Maria della Morte e dei giustiziati da essa assistiti, vol. 1, c. 164; Nomi e cognomi di tutti li giustiziati della città di Bologna dal principio che li Ill.mi Signori della Compagnia ed Arciconfraternita di S. Maria della Morte ebbero la Confortaria, cominciando dall’anno 1540, v. I, c. 19.

Medical treatises
Polemical histories and martyrologies
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