Ferdinando Alvarez

Basic information

Patronymic
Giovanni Alvarez
Other names
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Kingdom of Portugal
Date of birth
1564
Attributed date of birth
No
Age at the time of execution
76
Marital status
Unknown
Last occupation / Qualification
Previous occupations
Religious status
Layperson
Religious order
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
1628
End date
19 March 1640
Courts involved
Congregation of the Holy Office, Inquisition of Pisa, Inquisition of Portugal
Extradition
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
List of crimes
Reason for conviction
Pertinacious / impenitent
Accessory penalties

Execution

Execution date
19 March 1640
Authority
Governor of Rome
Execution place
Rome, Papal States, Campo de' Fiori
Execution type
burned alive
In effigy
No
After death
No
Presence of doctors / surgeons
Unknown
Name of the doctors / surgeons
Presence of comforters
Yes
Name of the comforters
Presence of rebels / riots
No
Sacraments imparted
No
Notes for execution

He managed to kick away the stool supporting him, and having been tied to the stake by the neck, he succeeded in suffocating himself before the pyre was lit.

Sources

Letters
Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Decrees and acdf sources
Legal opinions consultations
Registers of the condemned

Rome, Archivio di Stato, Sala inventari, 285/II, Confraternita di San Giovanni Decollato: Elenco giustiziati, p. 5.

Other magistracies
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