Simone de Simoni
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Simon di Simone
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Vicenza, Republic of Venice
- Date of birth
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- 50
- Marital status
- Married
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Silk weaver
- Previous occupations
“Passamaner”: a craftsman specialized in producing decorative textile trimmings such as braids, fringes, and cords.
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 1553
- End date
- 10 June 1570
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Mantua, Inquisition of Venice
- Extradition
- Yes
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Start date: first proceeding in Mantua.
End date: death sentence.
Tortured
Sentence
- Court
- Inquisition of Venice
- Local judge
- Aurelio Schilino da Brescia
- Sentence date
- 10 June 1570
- Sentence place
- Venice, Republic of Venice
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
Anabaptism; sacramental abuse (married twice).
- Reason for conviction
- Relapso
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 18 June 1570 or 19 June 1570
- Authority
- [Council of Ten]
- Execution place
- Venice, Republic of Venice
- Execution type
- Drowned at night
- 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
Drowned at night, outside the lagoon (beyond the Two Castles), bound with chains and a heavy stone; see Del Col (2024), p. 111.
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Archivio di Stato di Venezia (ASV), Sant’Uffizio (SU), Processi, fasc. “De Simeoni Simeone”.
ASV, Sant’Uffizio, b. 159, reg. “Processi 1569-1571”.
- Decrees and acdf sources
- Legal opinions consultations
- Registers of the condemned
- Other magistracies
ASV, Senato, Roma expulsis papalistis, fz. 19; cit. in Del Col, Milani (1998), pp. 149, 154-155.
- Petitions
- Confraternities
- Medical treatises
- Polemical histories and martyrologies
- Theological and legal texts
Sarpi Paolo, Sopra l’Officio dell’Inquisizione, ed. Corrado Pin, Venezia, Istituto veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti, 2018, p. 165, 167-168.
- 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