Francesco Severi
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Niccolò Severi
- Other names
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Argenta, Duchy of Ferrara
- Date of birth
- 1505-1510
- Attributed date of birth
- Yes
- Age at the time of execution
- 65
- Marital status
- Unknown
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Physician
- Previous occupations
natural philosophy teacher
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 03 December 1567
- End date
- 27 August 1570
- Courts involved
- Congregation of the Holy Office, Inquisition of Ferrara
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Sentence
- Court
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Local judge
- Paolo Costabili
- Sentence date
- 27 August 1570
- Sentence place
- Rome, Papal States
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
- Reason for conviction
- Relapso
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 07 September 1570
- Authority
- Execution place
- Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara, Piazza del Travaglio
- Execution type
- beheaded and burned
- In effigy
- No
- After death
- No
- Presence of doctors / surgeons
- Name of the doctors / surgeons
- Presence of comforters
- Name of the comforters
- Presence of rebels / riots
- Sacraments imparted
- Notes for execution
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Venice, Archivio della Curia Patriarcale, Archivio Segreto Sant’Uffizio, b. 2, 1561-1585, Processo Severi.
- Decrees and acdf sources
ACDF, S.O., Decreta (1567-1571), c. 151v.
- Legal opinions consultations
- Registers of the condemned
Ferrara, Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea, ms. cl. I, 404, c. 41r: Libro de’ giustiziati in Ferrara.
- Other magistracies
- Petitions
- Confraternities
- Medical treatises
- Polemical histories and martyrologies
- Theological and legal texts
- Collections of sermons
- Printed or manuscript notices and reports
Ferrara, Biblioteca comunale Ariostea, ms. cl. II, 349, c. 151.
- Chronicles
- Travel diaries
- Notarial acts and wills
- Expense registers and economic documents
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
- Other