Giovanni Battista Sambeni

Basic information

Patronymic
Giovanni Pietro
Other names
Zuan Battista Sambeni
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Remedello (Brescia), Republic of Venice
Date of birth
1538
Attributed date of birth
No
Age at the time of execution
31
Marital status
Unknown
Last occupation / Qualification
Musician
Previous occupations

Street musician; journeyman dyer; street theologian.

Religious status
Layperson
Religious order
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
9 January 1563
End date
27 August 1569
Courts involved
Inquisition of Brescia, Inquisition of Venice
Extradition
No
Other judges involved
Notes

Start date: Abjuration (Inquisition of Brescia).
End date: death sentence.
Tortured

Sentence

Court
Inquisition of Venice
Local judge
Valerio Faenzi da Verona o Aurelio Schilino da Brescia
Sentence date
27 August 1569
Sentence place
Venice, Republic of Venice
Crime category
Formal heresy
List of crimes

Anabaptism, Antitrinitarianism, and Evangelical beliefs.

Reason for conviction
Relapso
Accessory penalties

Execution

Execution date
1569/09/26
Authority
Council of Ten (Capi)
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
Unknown
Notes for execution

Ralapso + Antitrinitarian.

Sources

Letters
Local inquisitorial trials and documents

Archivio di Stato di Venezia (ASV), Sant’Uffizio (SU), b. 22, fasc. “Marosella Odorico” et alii; cit. in Del Col (2024), p. 109; and in Martin (1993), p. 199.

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

Related

Related persons
Bibliography

Canosa Romano, Storia dell’Inquisizione in Italia dalla metà del Cinquecento alla fine del Settecento, vol. 2: Venezia, Roma, Sapere 2000, 1987.

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, Forum, Udine, 2024.

Martin John J., Venice’s Hidden Enemies. Italian Heretics in a Renaissance City, Berkeley-Los Angeles-London, University of California Press, 1993.

Stella Aldo, Dall’anabattismo al socinianesimo nel Cinquecento Veneto. Ricerche storiche, Padova, Liviana, 1967.

Stella Aldo, Anabattismo e antitrinitarismo in Italia nel XVI secolo. Nuove ricerche storiche, Padova, Liviana, 1969.

Notes
Entry Author
Teresa Bernardi