Domenico Spallaccini

Basic information

Patronymic
Bartolomeo Spallaccini
Other names
Giuseppe Bonifazi, Giovan Battista Rosignoli, Andrea Rosignoli, Tobia Pontani, Giuseppe Spadaccino, Domenico Spadaccino, and Rubamiccie
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Orvieto, Papal States
Date of birth
22 November 1649
Attributed date of birth
No
Age at the time of execution
62
Marital status
Widow/er
Last occupation / Qualification
Fake priest
Previous occupations

Procurer (ruffiano)
Scammer
Thief
Friar of the third order of St. Franciscus but soon kicked out
Cooper (bigonzaro/tinozzaro)

Religious status
Layperson
Religious order
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
October 1708
End date
17 July 1711
Courts involved
Congregation of the Holy Office, Inquisition of Ancona
Extradition
No
Other judges involved
Notes

Sentence

Court
Congregation of the Holy Office
Local judge
Sentence date
17 July 1711
Sentence place
Rome, Papal States, Palazzo del Sant'Uffizio
Crime category
Sacrilege & blasphemy
List of crimes

to have officiated at Mass for a period of five years without having received holy orders

Reason for conviction
Relapso
Accessory penalties

Execution

Execution date
18 July 1711
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
Yes
Notes for execution

Sources

Letters
Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Decrees and acdf sources

ACDF, S.O., Decreta, reg. 169 (1711), f. 325r.

Legal opinions consultations
Registers of the condemned
Other magistracies
Petitions
Confraternities

Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 10, v. 20, Libro del Provveditore, p. 278.

Medical treatises
Polemical histories and martyrologies
Theological and legal texts
Collections of sermons
Printed or manuscript notices and reports

Relazione copiosa, distinta, e veridica, Della Nascita, Vita, e Morte oprobriosa, & infame di Domenico Spallaccini, Impiccato, & abbrugiato in Roma nel dì 18 Luglio MDCCXI. In vigore della di lui condanna fatta dal Supremo Tribunale della Santa Romana, & Universale Inquisizione, in Roma, Nella Stamperia di Gio: Francesco Chracas, presso S. Marco al Corso, 1711

Chronicles
Travel diaries
Notarial acts and wills
Expense registers and economic documents
Memorial documents epitaphs etc
Iconography
Other