Girolamo Vittori
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Benedetto Vittori
- Other names
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Bologna, Papal States
- Date of birth
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- Marital status
- Married
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- October 1566
- End date
- 22 March 1567
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Bologna
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Sentence
- Court
- Inquisition of Bologna
- Local judge
- Antonio Balducci
- Sentence date
- 22 March 1567
- Sentence place
- Bologna, Papal States, San Domenico
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
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Regarded as the leader and teacher of heretics, he propagated his doctrines through books, assemblies, and private instruction within his own household.
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Denied the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
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Affirmed only a spiritual presence of the body and blood of Christ in the bread and wine.
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Taught the doctrine of justification solely through Christ and His blood, rejecting the necessity of good works.
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Rejected all forms of intercession through the saints.
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Denied the validity of jubilees, indulgences, pilgrimages, and fasts.
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Denied the existence of Purgatory.
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Rejected the offering of Masses for the dead.
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Held the Mass to be a human invention rather than a divine institution.
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Denied the authority of the Pope, whom he identified as the Antichrist.
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- Reason for conviction
- Pertinacious / impenitent
- Accessory penalties
- Seizur
Execution
- Execution date
- 22 March 1567
- Authority
- Tribunale Criminale del Torrone
- Execution place
- Bologna, Papal States, San Petronio
- Execution type
- Burned in effigy
- In effigy
- Yes
- After death
- No
- Presence of doctors / surgeons
- Unknown
- Name of the doctors / surgeons
- Presence of comforters
- No
- Name of the comforters
- Presence of rebels / riots
- No
- Sacraments imparted
- No
- Notes for execution
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
- Decrees and acdf sources
- Legal opinions consultations
- Registers of the condemned
- Other magistracies
Bologna, Archivio di Stato, Tribunale del Torrone, Atti processuali, n. 393, anno 1567, cc. 313-319.
Bologna, Archivio Generale Arcivescovile di Bologna, Ricuperi Attuariali, filza 159, 6 July 1569.
- Petitions
Bologna, Biblioteca dell’Archiginnasio, ms. B. 43, c. 25r, 2 September 1580 (in Dall’Olio, Eretici e inquisitori, p. 381)
- 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
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
- Other