Antonio Fontana
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Antonio Rambaldo
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Isola della Scala, Republic of Venice
- Date of birth
- 1700
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- 24
- Marital status
- Unknown
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Miller
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Unknown
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 08 June 1723
- End date
- 26 August 1724
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Verona, Inquisition of Venice
- Extradition
- Yes
- Other judges involved
- Notes
See Veronese (2006), pp. 267-268.
The proceedings in Venice began on August 17, 1724.
Sentence
- Court
- Inquisition of Venice
- Local judge
- [Tommaso Maria Gennari da Chioggia]
- Sentence date
- 26 August 1724
- Sentence place
- Venice, Republic of Venice
- Crime category
- Sacrilege & blasphemy
- List of crimes
Sacrilegious theft and profanation of the Host.
- Reason for conviction
- Abuser of hosts
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 5 September 1724
- Authority
- [Council of Ten]
- Execution place
- Venice, Republic of Venice, Between the two columns in St. Mark’s Square
- Execution type
- Beheaded
- In effigy
- No
- After death
- No
- Presence of doctors / surgeons
- Unknown
- Name of the doctors / surgeons
- Presence of comforters
- Yes
- Name of the comforters
- Presence of rebels / riots
- Unknown
- Sacraments imparted
- Yes
- Notes for execution
He was beheaded between the two columns in St. Mark’s Square; his remains were burned, and the ashes were thrown into the lagoon.
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Archivio di Stato di Venezia, Sant’Uffizio (SU), Processi, b. 139, fasc. “Fontana Rambaldo Antonio”.
ASV, SU, b. 157, fasc. “Liber expeditorum (1711-1793)”, ad vocem Fontana Antonio; cit. in Veronese (2006), p. 265 (account of the execution).
- Decrees and acdf sources
ACDF, Decreta S.O., 1724, c. 125r, 7 June 1724; cit. in Veronese (2010), p. 229.
- Legal opinions consultations
ASV, Consultori in iure, filze 156, 192; cit. in Veronese (2010), p. 229.
- Registers of the condemned
- Other magistracies
ASV, Senato, Roma deliberazioni expulsis papalistis, fz. 33; cit. in Veronese (2006), p. 274.
ASV, Consiglio dei Dieci, parti criminali, fz. 136; cit. in Veronese (2006), p. 274.
- 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