Nicolò Franco
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Giovanni Franco
- Other names
- Niccolo Francomanno
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Benevento, Papal States
- Date of birth
- 13 or 14 September 1515
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- 55
- Marital status
- Unmarried
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Poet
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 01 September 1568
- End date
- 27 Febraury 1570
- Courts involved
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Sentence
- Court
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Local judge
- Sentence date
- 27 Febraury 1570
- Sentence place
- Rome, Papal States
- Crime category
- Others
- List of crimes
Having written the Commento sopra la vita et costumi di Giovan Pietro Carafa che fu Paolo IV.
- Reason for conviction
- To have composed writings in opposition to Pope Carafa and members of his family.
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 11 March 1570
- 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
- Legal opinions consultations
- Registers of the condemned
- Other magistracies
- Petitions
- Confraternities
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 3, v. 7, Libro del proveditore, c. 179;
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 4, v. 8, Giornale dei giustiziati, cc. 94v-95r.
- 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
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 3, v. 7, Libro del proveditore, c. 179;
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 4, v. 8, Giornale dei giustiziati, cc. 94v-95r.
- Expense registers and economic documents
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 4, v. 8, Giornale dei giustiziati, c. 95r.
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
- Other
Vatican City, Miscellanea arm. IX, t. 55 “Constituta et examina contra Nicolaum Francum Beneventanum et alios” (in Mercati, I costituti di Niccolò Franco).