Prospero d'Imperatore
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Western North Africa (Barbary)
- Date of birth
- 1540
- Attributed date of birth
- Yes
- Age at the time of execution
- 40
- Marital status
- Married
- Last occupation / Qualification
- cobbler
- Previous occupations
Slave, maybe worker in a sugar refinery
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 1575
- End date
- 19 January 1582
- Courts involved
- Congregation of the Holy Office, Inquisition of Florence, Inquisition of Palermo
- Extradition
- Yes
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Start date refers to the Palermo trial
Sentence
- Court
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Local judge
- fra' Dionigi Sammattei Costacciari
- Sentence date
- 13 February 1583
- Sentence place
- Rome, Papal States, Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
Calvinism
- Reason for conviction
- Relapso
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 18 February 1583
- Authority
- Governor of Rome
- Execution place
- Rome, Papal States, Campo de' Fiori
- Execution type
- 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
- Yes
- Notes for execution
Sacraments imparted: confession, communion
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
- Decrees and acdf sources
ACDF, S.O., Decreta, 1582, cc. 165r-166v.
- Legal opinions consultations
- Registers of the condemned
- Other magistracies
- Petitions
- Confraternities
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 6, v. 13, Giornale, cc. XLVIII
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 6, v. 12, Libro del proveditore, cc. 91v-92.
- 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
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 6, v. 13, Giornale, cc. XLVIII
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 6, v. 12, Libro del proveditore, cc. 91v-92.
- Expense registers and economic documents
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 6, v. 12, Libro del proveditore, c. 92v.
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
- Other