Bernardina Frigieri
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Genre
- Female
- Place of origin
- Mirandola, County of Mirandola, Cividale
- 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
- End date
- Courts involved
- Extradition
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Sentence
- Court
- Local judge
- Girolamo Armellini; Luca Bettini
- Sentence date
- Sentence place
- Crime category
- Magic & witchcraft
- List of crimes
- Reason for conviction
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 1523
- Authority
- Giovan Francesco Pico (count of Mirandola)
- Execution place
- Mirandola, County of Mirandola
- 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
Archivio di Stato di Modena, Inquisizione, libri di spese pubbliche, b. 283: Liber et catalogus reorum denuntiatorum et processatorum in Sancto Officio Regii (partially published – for the portion that concerns the witchcraft trials in Mirandola – in Giovanfrancesco Pico della Mirandola, Libro detto strega o delle illusioni del demonio, edited by Albano Biondi, Venice, Marsilio Editori, 1989, pp. 217-222).
- 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
Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola, Dialogus in tres libros divisus. Titulus est strix sive de ludificatione daemonum, Bologna, Hieronymus de Benedictis, 1523. I have used the modern edition of the contemporary Italian translation by Leandro Alberti: Giovanfrancesco Pico della Mirandola, Libro detto strega o delle illusioni del demonio, edited by Albano Biondi, Venice, Marsilio Editori, 1989.