Ambrogio Castenario

Basic information

Patronymic
Other names
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Lubiana
Date of birth
Attributed date of birth
No
Age at the time of execution
Marital status
Married
Last occupation / Qualification
Blacksmith
Previous occupations
Religious status
Layperson
Religious order
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
26 July 1568
End date
6 September 1568
Courts involved
Inquisition of Aquileia (1556-1575)
Extradition
No
Other judges involved
Notes

Sentence

Court
Inquisition of Aquileia (1556-1575)
Local judge
Giulio Columberto
Sentence date
6 September 1568
Sentence place
Udine, Republic of Venice
Crime category
Formal heresy
List of crimes
Reason for conviction
Relapso
Accessory penalties

Execution

Execution date
2 November 1568
Authority
Luogotenente of Udine
Execution place
Udine, Republic of Venice
Execution type
Strangled
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

Strangled at night, in prison.
Burial outside the Porta di Cussignacco.

Sources

Letters
Local inquisitorial trials and documents

Archivio di Stato Venezia (ASV), Sant’Uffizio (SU), Processi, b. 3, fasc. 44.

Decrees and acdf sources
Legal opinions consultations
Registers of the condemned
Other magistracies
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Confraternities
Medical treatises
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Theological and legal texts
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Printed or manuscript notices and reports
Chronicles
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Notarial acts and wills
Expense registers and economic documents
Memorial documents epitaphs etc
Iconography
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Related

Related persons
Bibliography

Corrubolo Federico, Gli atti del processo inquisitoriale contro Ambrogio Castenario (Udine, 1568), in “Rivista di storia della Chiesa in Italia”, 52/2 (1998), pp. 455-487.

De Biasio Luigi, L’eresia protestante in Friuli nella seconda metà del secolo XVI, in “Memorie storiche forogiuliesi”, 52 (1972), pp. 146-149 (the sentence is published here).

De Biasio Luigi, ed., 1000 processi dell’Inquisizione in Friuli (1551-1647), Villa Manin di Passariano, Centro regionale di catalogazione dei beni culturali, 1976, pp. 105-130 (the proceeding is published here).

Del Col Andrea, L’Inquisizione in Italia dal XII al XXI secolo, Milano, Mondadori, 2006.

Del Col Andrea, Inquisizione e dissenso nel Friuli del primo Cinquecento, Udine, Forum, 2024.

Del Col Andrea, Marisa Milani, “Senza effusione di sangue e senza pericolo di morte”. Intorno ad alcune condanne capitali delle Inquisizioni di Venezia e di Verona nel Settecento e a quelle veneziane del Cinquecento, in Eretici, esuli e indemoniati nell’età moderna, ed. Mario Rosa, Firenze, Olschki, 1998, pp. 141-196.

Notes
Entry Author
Teresa Bernardi