Ortensio Abbaticchio
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Cutrofiano, Kingdom of Naples
- Date of birth
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- Marital status
- Unknown
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Physician
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- Late 1564
- End date
- 14 June 1566
- Courts involved
- Archbishop Court of Naples, Congregation of the Holy Office
- Extradition
- Yes
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Sentence
- Court
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Local judge
- Sentence date
- 14 June 1566
- Sentence place
- Rome, Papal States, Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva
- Crime category
- Others
- List of crimes
Calumny against the three prelates that accused him of heresy and arrested him as relapsed. The three prelates were Alfonso Carafa (archbishop of Naples), Giovanni Luigi Campagna (vicar of the archbishop of Naples) and Giulio Antonio Santori (vicar of the archbishop of Caserta).
He accused the three prelates of conspiring to poison the then-reigning Pope Pius IV.
- Reason for conviction
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 15 June 1566
- Authority
- Governor of Rome
- Execution place
- Rome, Papal States, Ponte Sant'Angelo square
- Execution type
- Hanged
- 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
Sacraments imparted: confession and communion
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
- Decrees and acdf sources
ADDF, St. St., I 4-b (4), c. 1; I 4-b (10), c. 2v.
- Legal opinions consultations
- Registers of the condemned
- Other magistracies
- Petitions
- Confraternities
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 3, v. 6, Giornale, c. 20
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 3, v. 7, Libro del proveditore, c. 13v.
- 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