Lucia Cacciarda
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Genre
- Female
- Place of origin
- Date of birth
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- Marital status
- Unknown
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 23 June 1510
- End date
- 8 September 1510
- Courts involved
- Extradition
- Other judges involved
- Notes
23 June 1510 is the earliest date in which we have a mention of the trial. However, by that time the woman had already been sentenced by the inquisitor and the conflict with the local podestà and the bishop’s vicar over the execution had risen.
Sentence
- Court
- Local judge
- Antonio da Casale
- Sentence date
- Sentence place
- Parma, Duchy of Milan
- Crime category
- Magic & witchcraft
- List of crimes
- Reason for conviction
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 8 September 1510
- Authority
- Execution place
- Parma, Duchy of Milan, Piazza Ghiaia
- Execution type
- burning at the stake
- In effigy
- No
- After death
- No
- Presence of doctors / surgeons
- Name of the doctors / surgeons
- Presence of comforters
- Name of the comforters
- Presence of rebels / riots
- Sacraments imparted
- Notes for execution
The podestà of Parma and the bishop’s vicar opposed the inquisitor’s death sentence.
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
- 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
Leone Smagliati, Cronaca parmense 1494-1518, Parma, Deputazione di storia patria per le province parmensi, 1970, pp. 148-149 e 151.
- Travel diaries
- Notarial acts and wills
- Expense registers and economic documents
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
- Other