Giorgio Siculo
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Giorgio Rioli
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- San Pietro in Clarenza, Kingdom of Sicily
- Date of birth
- 1517
- Attributed date of birth
- Yes
- Age at the time of execution
- 34
- Marital status
- Unknown
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Cleric
- Religious order
- Benedictines
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- September 1550
- End date
- 30 March 1551
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Ferrara
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Cardinal Michele Ghislieri; Girolamo Scroguerro, benedictine abbot of S. Faustino (Brescia)
- Notes
Start date: arrest
End date: autodafé
Sentence
- Court
- Inquisition of Ferrara
- Local judge
- Girolamo Papino
- Sentence date
- Sentence place
- Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
He denied the efficacy of the sacraments, miracles, the existence of purgatory and hell, and the doctrine of the Trinity; he rejected the divine infusion of the soul, claiming instead that it was transmitted by man himself from God
- Reason for conviction
- Relapso
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 23 May 1551
- Authority
- Duke of Ferrara
- Execution place
- Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara, Castello Estense
- Execution type
- Strangled
- 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
He was strangled by night in the Palazzo Estense, without spectators and hanged at a window of Palazzo della Ragione
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
- Decrees and acdf sources
ACDF, Decreta 1548-1558, c. 40r (edited in Prosperi, L’eresia del Libro Grande, p. 437)
- Legal opinions consultations
- Registers of the condemned
Ferrara, Biblioteca Ariostea, ms. Classe I, 404, Libro delli giustiziati, c. 30v (edited in Mazzi, «Gente a cui si fa notte innanzi sera», p. 145)
Ferrara, Archivio dei residui ecclesiastici presso la Curia arcivescovile, Confraternita di San Giovanni Battista, b. 87, Carcerati conforteria, p. 26 (edited in Prosperi, L’eresia del Libro Grande, p. 19)
«Libro delli giustiziati, secondo i codici di Ferrara e del Vaticano» (edited in Fontana, Renata di Francia, vol. 2, p. 279)
- Other magistracies
- Petitions
- Confraternities
- Medical treatises
- Polemical histories and martyrologies
- Theological and legal texts
- Collections of sermons
- Printed or manuscript notices and reports
- Chronicles
On the autodafé: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Lat. 12587, Croniche di Ferrara del Biondi e di altri autori, c. 56v (edited in Prosperi, L’eresia del Libro Grande, p. 232)
- Travel diaries
- Notarial acts and wills
- Expense registers and economic documents
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
- Other
