Giacomo Paleologo
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Teodoro Maxilaras
- Other names
- Giacomo da Chio, Giacomo da Scio, Jacobus Palaelogus, Iacopo da Scio, Iacobus Chius, Iacobus Olympidarius Palaeologus, Pietro Maxilaras, and Pietro Massillara
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Chios, Republic of Genoa
- Date of birth
- 1520
- Attributed date of birth
- Yes
- Age at the time of execution
- 65
- Marital status
- Not applicable
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Theologian
- Previous occupations
Dominican friar
- Religious status
- Cleric
- Religious order
- Dominicans
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- September 1557
- End date
- 13 February 1583
- Courts involved
- Congregation of the Holy Office, Inquisition of Ferrara, Inquisition of Genoa
- Extradition
- Yes
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Sentence
- Court
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Local judge
- Sentence date
- 13 February 1583
- Sentence place
- Rome, Papal States
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
- Reason for conviction
- Antitrinitarian
- Accessory penalties
- His books were burned
Execution
- Execution date
- 22 March 1585
- Authority
- Governor of Rome
- Execution place
- Rome, Papal States, Prison of Tor di Nona
- Execution type
- beheaded 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
His corpse was burned in Campo de’ Fiori
On 5 March 1561, a first death sentence was carried out in effigy
Sacraments imparted: Confession and communion
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
- Decrees and acdf sources
ACDF, S.O. Decreta 1583, ff. 224r-v, 255v; St. St., Q 3-b passim
- Legal opinions consultations
- Registers of the condemned
- Other magistracies
- Petitions
- Confraternities
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 6, v. 12, Libro del Proveditore, cc. 185v-186r.
- Medical treatises
- Polemical histories and martyrologies
- Theological and legal texts
- Collections of sermons
- Printed or manuscript notices and reports
Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, cod. Urbinate Latino, ms. 1051, ff. 84a-84b.
- Chronicles
- Travel diaries
- Notarial acts and wills
- Expense registers and economic documents
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 6, v. 12, Libro del Proveditore, c. 186r.
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
Innocente Alessandri (engraver), Pietro Antonio Novelli (draftsman), Detesta il novator lo sparso errore (…) impetra!. San Filippo Neri salva il Paleologo Eresiarca dal rogo, stampa, 1792, in Vita di S. Filippo Neri institutore della Congregazione dell’Oratorio, Venezia, 1793, tav. n. 53.
https://catalogo.beniculturali.it/detail/HistoricOrArtisticProperty/1100103353
L’eretico convertito: Michele Paleologo sul patibolo convertito da san Filippo Neri, incisione, Venezia, 1792 (in Prosperi, Delitto e perdono, tav. 17).
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