Sebastian Bazan

Basic information

Patronymic
Ludovico
Other names
Sebastiano Basano and Sebastiano Bazano
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Pancalieri, Duchy of Savoy
Date of birth
Attributed date of birth
No
Age at the time of execution
Marital status
Unmarried
Last occupation / Qualification
Tradesman
Previous occupations
Religious status
Layperson
Religious order
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
26 April 1622
End date
22 November 1623
Courts involved
Inquisition of Turin
Extradition
No
Other judges involved
Senate of Piedmont
Notes

Start date: arrest
End date: sentence

Sentence

Court
Inquisition of Turin
Local judge
Camillo Balliani
Sentence date
22 November 1623
Sentence place
Rome, Papal States
Crime category
Formal heresy
List of crimes

Obstinacy in the Reformed faith (Waldensianism)

Reason for conviction
Pertinacious / impenitent
Accessory penalties

Execution

Execution date
23 November 1623
Authority
Duke of Savoy
Execution place
Turin, Duchy of Savoy, Porta Palazzo
Execution type
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
Unknown
Sacraments imparted
Unknown
Notes for execution

Sources

Letters

Sebastiano Bazano to Pierre Gilles, Turin, 14 July 1622 (edited in Tarantino, ’I am contented to die’, p. 133)

Sebastiano Bazano to Jean-Vincent Gosio, Turin, 15 May 1622; Turin, 26 May 1622; Turin, 17 June 1622; Turin, 19 June 1622; Turin, 21 June 1622 (edited in Tarantino, ’I am contented to die’, pp. 133-135)

Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Decrees and acdf sources
Legal opinions consultations
Registers of the condemned
Other magistracies
Petitions

François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières and Constable of France, to Carlo Emanuele I, duke of Savoy, Paris, 15 February 1623 (edited in Tarantino, ’I am contented to die’, p. 135)

Confraternities
Medical treatises
Polemical histories and martyrologies

Blair Adam, History of the Waldenses, vol. 2, Edinburgh, Black, 1833, pp. 357-358

Blanchard Amos, Book of Martyrs, Or, A History of the Lives, Sufferings and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive and Protestant Martyrs, from the Introduction of Christianity, to the Latest Periods of Pagan, Popish, Protestant, and Infidel Persecutions, Kingston, Ellis, 1844, p. 137

Gilles Pierre, Histoire ecclésiastique des Eglises Réformées, recueillies en quelques Valées de Piedmont, et circonuoisines, autrefois appelées Eglises Vaudoises, commençant des l’an 1160 de nostre Seigneur, et finissant en l’an mil sex cent quarante trois, Genève, Iean de Tournes, 1644, pp. 426-431

Waldenser Chronick, Das ist, Von dem Harkommen, Lehr und Leben wie auch vielfaltigen Verfolgungen der Evangelischen Christen Waldenser genant. Von dem 1160. bis in das 1655. Jahr, Schaffhausen, Suter, 1655, p. 343

Hislop Alexander, The Red Republic; or, Scarlet-Coloured Beast of the Apocalypse: Being An Inquiry into the Period of the Prophesying of the Two Witnesses, and the Character of the Beast That Kills Them, Edinburgh, William Whyte, 1849, p. 44

Janeway Jacob Jones, Antidote to the Poison of Popery in the Writings and Conduct of Professors Nevin & Schaff, Professors in the German Reformed Church in the U. S. of America, New Brunswick, Terhune, 1856, p. 213

McCabe James Dabney, Cross and Crown, or, The Sufferings and Triumphs of the Heroic Men and Women Who Were Persecuted for the Religion of Jesus Christ, Cincinnati-Memphis-Atlanta-Philadelphia-Chicago, National Publishing Company-Jones Brothers, 1874, pp. 167-174

Muston Alexis, L’Israël des Alpes. Première histoire complète des Vaudois du Piémont et de leurs colonies, composée en grande partie sur des documents inédits, avec l’indication des sources et des autorités, vol. 2, Paris, Marc Ducloux, 1851, pp. 229-237

Priestley Joseph, The Theological and Miscellaneous Works, vol. 10, A General History of the Christian Church from the Fall of the Western Empire, Northumberland, 1803, p. 337

Récit véritable de la mort d’un fidèle martyr, brusié vif à Turin, pour la confession de l’Evangile, n.p., 1624

Reece Richard, A Compendious Martyrology, Containing an Account of the Sufferings and Constancy of Christians, in the Different Persecutions which Have Raged against Them under Pagan and Popish Governments, vol. 2, London, Thomas Cordeux, 1813, p. 197

Sketches of the Waldenses, London, The Religious Tract Society, 1846, pp. 121-23

Waerachtich verhael, van de doodt van Sebastiaen Basan Geboorten tot Pancalier in Piedmont, Constant Martelaer levendich verbrandt tot Turim, om de belijdenisse van’t Euangelie, den 23. Nouembris 1623, Den Haag, Aert Meuris, 1624

Worsfold John Napper, The Vaudois of Piedmont: A Visit to their Valleys with a Sketch of Their Remarkable History as a Church and People to the Present Date, London, Shaw, 1873, p. 43

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