Benvenuta
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Pincinella; Pinzinella
- Genre
- Female
- Place of origin
- Pontevico, Republic of Venice
- Date of birth
- circa 1458
- Attributed date of birth
- Yes
- Age at the time of execution
- 60
- Marital status
- Married
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 19 June 1518
- End date
- 29 June 1518
- Courts involved
- Extradition
- Other judges involved
- Tommaso da Calvisano
- Notes
19 June 1518 is the date of the earliest document preserved from the trial. The woman had already been previously tried.
Sentence
- Court
- Local judge
- Lorenzo Mazi da Brescia
- Sentence date
- 29 June 1518
- Sentence place
- Crime category
- Magic & witchcraft
- List of crimes
- Reason for conviction
- Relapso
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- after 29 June 1518
- Authority
- Execution place
- 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
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
The trial documents are preserved in a copy by Marin Sanudo, published in his Diarii, vol. XXV, Vicenza, Visentini, 1889, coll. 632-650; republished by Teodoro di Liebenau, Processi di streghe, in «Archivio storico lombardo» VI/III (1889), pp. 226-245. The sentence is also published in Giuseppe Farinielli, Ermanno Paccagnini, Processo per stregoneria a Caterina de Medici 1616-1617, Milan, Rusconi, 1989, pp. 66-67.
- 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