Giovanni Antonio Bellinelli

Informazioni di Base

Patronymic
Giacomo Bellinelli
Other names
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Massa of Carrara, Duchy of Massa
Date of birth
1544
Data attribuita di nascita:
Yes
Age at the execution time
43
Marital status
Not applicable
Last occupation / Qualification
Necromancer
Previous occupations

Priest
Franciscan friar

Religious status
Cleric
Religious order
Franciscans
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
1586
End date
16/07/1587
Courts involved
Congregation of the Holy Office, Archbishop Court of Naples, Inquisition of Malta
Extradition
Yes
Other judges involved
Note

Start date refers to his denunciation before the Inquisition of Naples

Sentence

Court
Congregation of the Holy Office
Local judge
Sentence date
16/07/1587
Sentence place
Papal States - Rome - Palazzo del Sant'Uffizio
Crime category
Magic & witchcraft
Lista dei Crimini:
  • Practice of sorcery, necromancy, and idolatry;

  • Being deemed an apostate from the Christian faith due to the aforementioned acts of sorcery, necromancy, and idolatry;

  • Reading and possession of books and writings concerning sorcery, necromancy, and other prohibited materials;

  • Celebrating Holy Mass and administering orders while under excommunication and suspension;

  • Pernicious falsification and usurpation of the supreme patriarchal priesthood;

  • Illicit exercise of the authority to bless crowns, grant indulgences, dispense from vows, and permit the consumption of meat by members of religious orders bound by institution or vow to abstain;

  • Engaging in such acts to the manifest damnation of his own soul and to the grave detriment and seduction of the souls of the faithful

Reason for conviction
Pertinacious / impenitent
Accessory penalties

Execution

Execution date
06/08/1587
Authority
Governor of Rome
Execution place
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
Note for execution

Sacraments imparted: confession and communion

Fonti

Decrees and acdf sources

ADDF, S.O., Decreta Sancti Officii, 1587, cc. 1; 44 (digitalised version online)

Confraternities

Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 7, v. 14, Giornale del Provveditore, cc. 74r-75r.

Printed or manuscript notices and reports

Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, codice Urbinate Latino, ms. 1055, cc. nn.

Expense registers and economic documents

Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 7, v. 14, Giornale del Provveditore, c. 75r.