Benedetto dal Borgo
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Andrea
- Other names
- Benedetto del Borgo and Benedetto d'Asolo
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Asolo, Republic of Venice
- Date of birth
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- Marital status
- Unknown
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Anabaptist bishop
- Previous occupations
Preacher; notary
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- February 1551
- End date
- 16 March 1551
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Adria-Rovigo
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Start date: arrest.
End date: sentence.
Tortured
Sentence
- Court
- Inquisition of Adria-Rovigo
- Local judge
- Accursio Bettis Sammartini
- Sentence date
- 16 March 1551
- Sentence place
- Rovigo, Republic of Venice
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
Spreading of heretical ideas (Anabaptism; Antitrinitarianism).
Denial of the Trinity and the divine nature of Christ; rejection of certain passages of Scripture considered to be interpolations; refusal to baptize infants; prohibition for Christians to serve as magistrates; see Malavasi (1972), p. 8.
- Reason for conviction
- Pertinacious / impenitent
- Accessory penalties
- Confiscation of goods
Execution
- Execution date
- 17 March 1551
- Authority
- Podestà and captain of Rovigo
- Execution place
- Rovigo, Republic of Venice
- Execution type
- Beheaded; burned at the stake
- 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
- No
- Notes for execution
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Archivio di Stato di Venezia (ASV), Sant’Uffizio (SU), Processi, b. 9; cit. in Stella 1967, p. 80.
ASV, SU, Processi, b. 6, abjuration of Francesco Sartori; cit. in Addante 2010.
ASV, SU, b. 158, 21 January 1552, testimony of Caterina (wife of the Anabaptist Gian Maria Beato from Rovigo); cit. in Addante 2010.
- Decrees and acdf sources
- Legal opinions consultations
- Registers of the condemned
- Other magistracies
ASV, Senato, Deliberazioni Roma, 18 February 1566 (cit. in Stella 1967, p. 80).
- 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
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
- Other