Tommaso Scurta
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Tommaso da Finale
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Finale Emilia, Duchy of Modena and Reggio
- Date of birth
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- Marital status
- Unknown
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Unknown
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 1561
- End date
- 29 August 1568
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Ferrara, Inquisition of Reggio Emilia
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Start date: denunciation
End date: sentence
Sentence
- Court
- Inquisition of Ferrara
- Local judge
- Paolo Costabili
- Sentence date
- 29 August 1568
- Sentence place
- Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
Follower of Giorgio Siculo’s preaching
- Reason for conviction
- Relapso
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 4 September 1568
- Authority
- Duke of Ferrara
- Execution place
- Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara
- Execution type
- Beheaded and 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
- Unknown
- Sacraments imparted
- Unknown
- Notes for execution
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Archivio di Stato di Modena, Inquisizione, 5, 14
Archivio di Stato di Modena, Inquisizione, 284, 7, Catalogo dei rei e indiziati
- Decrees and acdf sources
- Legal opinions consultations
- Registers of the condemned
Ferrara, Biblioteca Ariostea, ms. Classe I, 404, Libro delli giustiziati, c. 39v (edited in Mazzi, «Gente a cui si fa notte innanzi sera», p. 156)
- Other magistracies
- Petitions
- Confraternities
- Medical treatises
- Polemical histories and martyrologies
- Theological and legal texts
- Collections of sermons
- Printed or manuscript notices and reports
- Chronicles
Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Raccordi diversi della città di Ferrara, ms. ital. 530 a R. 42
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ottob. Lat. 2774; Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea di Ferrara, ms. cl. I, n. 404, f. 39rv (edited in Fontana, Renata di Francia, vol. 3, p. 193)
- Travel diaries
- Notarial acts and wills
- Expense registers and economic documents
On the arrest: Ferrara, Curia Arcivescovile, Archivio dei residui ecclesiastici, S. Domenico, b. 1M, 1N (from Prosperi, «Il budget», p. 137)
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
- Other
