Ottavio d’Arimini
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Ottavio d'Arimini di Martina, Ottavio Orimini, and Ottavio d'Arimine
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Kingdom of Naples
- Date of birth
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- Marital status
- Not applicable
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Student of philosophy
- Previous occupations
Dominican novice
- Religious status
- Cleric
- Religious order
- Dominicans
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 14 January 1591
- End date
- May 1595
- Courts involved
- Congregation of the Holy Office, Archbishop Court of Naples
- Extradition
- Yes
- Other judges involved
- Notes
End date refers to the execution
Sentence
- Court
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Local judge
- Sentence date
- Sentence place
- Rome, Papal States
- Crime category
- Jews & judaisers, Formal heresy, Sacrilege & blasphemy, and Unbelief / misbelief / heretical propositions
- List of crimes
Denial of the Virgin Mary’s virginity and of Christ’s divine nature; Jesus portrayed as a teacher who had learned magic in Egypt; Christianity described as a falsification devised by a group of cunning doctors who had supplanted the true religion — Judaism; anti-Christian.
- Reason for conviction
- Denier of the virginity of Mary
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- May 1597
- Authority
- Governor of Rome
- Execution place
- Rome, Papal States, Prison of Tor di Nona
- Execution type
- beheaded
- In effigy
- No
- After death
- No
- Presence of doctors / surgeons
- No
- Name of the doctors / surgeons
- Presence of comforters
- Unknown
- Name of the comforters
- Presence of rebels / riots
- No
- Sacraments imparted
- Unknown
- Notes for execution
Ottavio d’Arimini, apparently after having repented, was beheaded in prison by order of the Governor of Rome, who acted contrary to the wishes of the Congregation of the Holy Office, which had intended the execution to be public. Evidence of this conflict is preserved in the papal audience of 2 June 1597, when Cardinal Giulio Antonio Santoro reported what had happened to Pope Clement VIII. A record of this can be found in Vatican City, Archivio Apostolico Vaticano, Miscellanea Armadi, LII 21, c. 305v
Sources
- Letters
Napoli, Archivio Storico Diocesano di Napoli, Sant’Ufficio, Lettere, vol. 1, cc. 138r-v; 144r (in: Scaramella Pierroberto, Le lettere della Congregazione del Sant’Ufficio ai Tribunali di Fede di Napoli, 1563-1625, p. 107) Copy available at Napoli, Archivio Storico Diocesano di Napoli, Sant’Ufficio, fasc. 161/229, cc. 40r-41r.
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Napoli, Archivio Storico Diocesano di Napoli, Sant’Uffizio, 229a, more specifically, c. 361r–v contains a document dated 12 August 1594, in which the Neapolitan tribunal expressed its favourable opinion regarding the death sentence against Ottavio d’Arimini.
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Vatican City, Archivio Apostolico Vaticano, Miscellanea Armadi, LII 21, c. 305v