Pomponio Algieri
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Nicola Ambrogio
- Other names
- Pomponio Algeri and Pomponio de Algerio
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Nola, Kingdom of Naples
- Date of birth
- 1531
- Attributed date of birth
- Yes
- Age at the time of execution
- 25
- Marital status
- Unmarried
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Student of philosophy and theology
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 29 May 1555
- End date
- 15 June 1556
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Venice, Congregation of the Holy Office, Inquisition of Padua
- Extradition
- Yes
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Start date refers to the first interrogation
Sentence
- Court
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Local judge
- Sentence date
- June 1556, between 7th and 15th
- Sentence place
- Rome, Papal States
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
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Denied the authority of the Pope as the Vicar of Christ.
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Rejected all sacraments of the Roman Church except Baptism and the Eucharist.
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Denied the doctrine of transubstantiation.
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Denied the salvific efficacy of good works.
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Rejected the hierarchical structure of the priesthood.
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Denied the necessity of auricular confession.
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Rejected the intercession of the saints.
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Denied the validity of indulgences.
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Denied the existence of Purgatory.
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- Reason for conviction
- Pertinacious / impenitent
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 19 August 1556
- Authority
- Governor of Rome
- Execution place
- Rome, Papal States, Piazza Navona
- Execution type
- Immersion in a large cauldron filled with oil, pitch, and turpentine
- 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
- No
- Notes for execution
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Venezia, Archivio di Stato, Sant’Ufficio di Venezia, Processi, b. 13
- Decrees and acdf sources
ADDF, S. O., St. St. I.4-b, cc. 3-21: De persecutionis haereticae pravitatis historia (in Ricci, Il sommo, p. 70)
- Legal opinions consultations
- Registers of the condemned
- Other magistracies
- Petitions
- Confraternities
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 2, v. 4, Libro del proveditore, c. 10r.
- Medical treatises
- Polemical histories and martyrologies
Jean Crespin, Histoire des vrays Tesmoins de la verité de l’Evangile, Genève, L’Ancre de Iean Crespin, 1570.
- Theological and legal texts
- Collections of sermons
- Printed or manuscript notices and reports
Firenze, Archivio di Stato, Strozziane, filza 249, quaderno 2°, p. 242;
Venezia, Archivio di Stato, Regist. Dispacci da Roma ai Capi del Cons. dei Dieci di B. Navagero (in Giuseppe de Blasiis, Pomponio de Algerio nolano, in Racconti di storia napoletana, Napoli, Francesco Perrella Editore, 1908, pp. 26-88.)
- Chronicles
- Travel diaries
- Notarial acts and wills
- Expense registers and economic documents
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 2, v. 4, Libro del proveditore, c. 10r.
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
Jan Luyken, Pomponius Algerius, a student from Padua burned at Rome on 19 august 1556, from Théatre des martyrs, depuis le mort de Jesus Christ jusqu’à present, Leiden, 1665, vol. 2, p. 189
- Other