Bartolomeo Fonzio

Basic information

Patronymic
Filippo
Other names
Michelangelo Castellano Sabino
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Venice, Republic of Venice
Date of birth
1502
Attributed date of birth
No
Age at the time of execution
60
Marital status
Not applicable
Last occupation / Qualification
Preacher
Previous occupations

Professor; school teacher

Religious status
Cleric
Religious order
Franciscans
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
27 May 1558
End date
27 June 1562
Courts involved
Inquisition of Venice
Extradition
No
Other judges involved
Notes

Start date: arrest.
End date: death sentence.

Sentence

Court
Inquisition of Venice
Local judge
Tommaso da Vicenza
Sentence date
27 June 1562
Sentence place
Venice, Republic of Venice
Crime category
Formal heresy
List of crimes

Lutheranism; Anabaptism; Heretical propositions.

Reason for conviction
Pertinacious / impenitent
Accessory penalties

Execution

Execution date
4 August 1562
Authority
Captain of the Inquisition
Execution place
Venice, Republic of Venice
Execution type
Drowned
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
No
Notes for execution

Drowned with a stone tied to his chest (Venice, lagoon).

Sources

Letters

Archivio di Stato di Venezia (ASV), Sant’Uffizio (SU), Processi, b. 19, Letter by the lawyer Nicola Zaccato (or Zacatto) concerning Fonzio’s execution, 23 August 1562; cit. in Stella (1969), p. 110.

Local inquisitorial trials and documents

Archivio di Stato Venezia (ASV), Sant’Uffizio (SU), Processi, b. 18, fasc. “Bartolomeo Fonzio”.

Decrees and acdf sources
Legal opinions consultations
Registers of the condemned
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