Giacomo Saliceti

Basic information

Patronymic
Other names
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Bologna, Papal States
Date of birth
1503
Attributed date of birth
Yes
Age at the time of execution
76
Marital status
Unknown
Last occupation / Qualification
Silk weaver
Previous occupations
Religious status
Layperson
Religious order
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
October 1568
End date
30 April 1579
Courts involved
Inquisition of Bologna, Inquisition of Venice
Extradition
No
Other judges involved
Notes

Start date refers to the first trial in Venice

Sentence

Court
Inquisition of Bologna
Local judge
Eliseo Capys
Sentence date
30 April 1579
Sentence place
Bologna, Papal States, San Domenico
Crime category
Formal heresy
List of crimes
  • Profoundly heretical over an extended period.

  • Contempt for confraternities devoted to the cult of the Virgin Mary.

  • Denial of purgatory, deemed a theological invention from merely two centuries prior.

  • Assertion that the Antichrist would be a pope.

  • Justification by faith alone (sola fide).

  • Rejection of the veneration of images.

  • Limitation of papal authority exclusively to the preaching of the Gospel.

  • Reduction of the sacraments to baptism and the Eucharist only.

  • Interpretation of the Eucharist solely as a commemoration of the Lord’s Passion.

  • Denial of free will.

Reason for conviction
Relapso
Accessory penalties

Execution

Execution date
30 April 1579
Authority
Tribunale Criminale del Torrone
Execution place
Bologna, Papal States, San Petronio
Execution type
Hanged and Burned
In effigy
No
After death
No
Presence of doctors / surgeons
Unknown
Name of the doctors / surgeons
Presence of comforters
Unknown
Name of the comforters
Presence of rebels / riots
No
Sacraments imparted
Unknown
Notes for execution

Sources

Letters
Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Decrees and acdf sources
Legal opinions consultations
Registers of the condemned

Bologna, Archivio di Stato, Sala Consultazione, ms. Catalogo di tutte le giustizie eseguite in Bologna.

Other magistracies
Petitions
Confraternities
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
Expense registers and economic documents

Bologna, Archivio Generale Arcivescovile di Bologna, Ricuperi Attuariali, filza 169, fasc. Jacobi Saliceti.

Memorial documents epitaphs etc
Iconography
Other