Alessandro Caverzago
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Gabriele
- Other names
- Nelione
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Piacenza, Duchy of Parma and Piacenza
- Date of birth
- 1515
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- 49
- Marital status
- Married
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Patrician
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 1547-1564
- End date
- Before 2 June 1564
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Piacenza
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Giovanni Andrea de Callegari da Brisighella
- Notes
Start date: the interest of the Inquisition on Caverzago has been traced back to the period of Imperial rule in Piacenza (1547-1556)
End date: sentence
Sentence
- Court
- Inquisition of Piacenza
- Local judge
- Umberto Locati
- Sentence date
- Before 2 June 1564
- Sentence place
- Piacenza, Duchy of Parma and Piacenza
- Crime category
- Unbelief / misbelief / heretical propositions
- List of crimes
Belief in justification by faith and in the doctrine of predestination; unbelief in the worth of pilgrimages and fasting; unbelief in the power of the Pope, regarded as the Antichrist; belief in the priesthood of all believers; unbelief in the usefulness of the Holy Water; misbelief in clerical celibacy and support for the marriage between his sister, a nun, and a «Lutheran», in Geneva; unbelief in the worth of the prayers to the Virgin Mary and to the saints; unbelief in the existence of purgatory; unbelief in the Sacrament of Penance and non-attendance of it; belief in Communion under both kinds; unbelief in transubstantiation; unbelief in the worth of the attendance of the mass and non-attendance of it; attendance of the Communion without confession; belief in the worth of only two sacraments: the baptism and the Lord’s supper; belief in the worth of German Church and unbelief in the Roman Church; reading of heretical and prohibited books
- Reason for conviction
- Relapso
- Accessory penalties
- Confiscation of assets
Execution
- Execution date
- 2 June 1564
- Authority
- Duke of Parma and Piacenza
- Execution place
- Piacenza, Duchy of Parma and Piacenza
- Execution type
- Burned
- 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
- No
- Sacraments imparted
- Unknown
- Notes for execution
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Piacenza, Biblioteca Comunale Passerini-Landi, Ms. Com. 289, b. 1, 15, notarial act of Lazzaro Cremaschi, chancellor of the Inquisition, 15 June 1564 (edited in Castignoli, Eresia e Inquisizione, pp. 155-158
Piacenza, Archivio di Stato, Archivio Notarile di Piacenza, notaio Cremaschi Lazzaro, filza 3823, 16 giugno 1564, Notice of confiscation of all movable and immovable property belonging to the executed Alessandro Caverzago (edited in Castignoli, Eresia e Inquisizione, pp. 159-161)
- Decrees and acdf sources
- Legal opinions consultations
Pietro Antonio Pietra (edited in Locati, Opus quod iudiciale Inquisitorum dicitur, pp. 505-510)
Giovanni Maria Domenichi (edited in Locati, Opus quod iudiciale Inquisitorum dicitur, pp. 510-512)
- Registers of the condemned
- Other magistracies
- Petitions
- Confraternities
- Medical treatises
- Polemical histories and martyrologies
- Theological and legal texts
Locati Umberto, Opus quod iudiciale Inquisitorum dicitur, Romae, apud haeredes Antonii Bladii, 1568, pp. 504-512 [casus XIII]
- Collections of sermons
- Printed or manuscript notices and reports
- Chronicles
Poggiali Cristoforo, Memorie storiche di Piacenza, vol. 10, Piacenza, Giacopazzi, 1761, p. 33
- Travel diaries
- Notarial acts and wills
- Expense registers and economic documents
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
Via Alessandro da Caverzago, Piacenza
- Iconography
- Other