Marco Magnavacca
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Francesco
- Other names
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio
- Date of birth
- 1516
- Attributed date of birth
- Yes
- Age at the time of execution
- 50
- Marital status
- Married
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Shearman
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- April 1560
- End date
- 10 February 1567
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Modena
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Start date: denunciation
End date: conclusion of the proceedings
Sentence
- Court
- Inquisition of Modena
- Local judge
- Nicolò dal Finale
- Sentence date
- 16 February 1567
- Sentence place
- Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
He refused to make use of the iconography of saints; he asserted the uselessness of invoking eternal life through the Virgin; he considered the worship of images to be idolatrous; he criticized ex-votos accompanied by images; he said that one could invoke only God; he said that all sins are equal and that dying without God’s grace is a mortal sin; he said that the good works of men should be attributed entirely to God; he said that the Church should not shed the blood of heretics; he doubted the goodness of the mass and considered it inferior to preaching; he kept and read books of suspected heretics.
- Reason for conviction
- Relapso
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 20 February 1567
- Authority
- Governor of Modena
- Execution place
- Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio, Porta Sant'Agostino
- Execution type
- Hanged 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
- Yes
- Notes for execution
Confession
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Modena, Archivio di Stato, Inquisizione, 4.2; 4.9; 7.30; 1.6.VIII;
- Decrees and acdf sources
ACDF, Sant’Officio, St. St. EE 1-a, c. 716r
- Legal opinions consultations
- Registers of the condemned
Modena, Archivio di Stato, Rettori dello Stato, Modena, 70; 12; Vacchette, 1567 c. 22r (confession of the condemned)
- Other magistracies
- Petitions
The Conservators of Modena to the duke Alfonso II, Modena, 11 February 1567 (Modena, Archivio di Stato, Inquisizione, 1.6.IX; Modena, Archivio Storico del Comune, Ex actis, 11 febbraio 1567)
- Confraternities
- Medical treatises
- Polemical histories and martyrologies
- Theological and legal texts
- Collections of sermons
- Printed or manuscript notices and reports
- Chronicles
Chronicle of Bartolomeo Lodi (Tommaso Sandonnini, Ludovico Castelvetro e la sua famiglia. Note biografiche, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1882, p. 227)
Modena, Archivio di Stato, Boschetti, X.XIII.37, Cronica dei Carandini, p. 115
- Travel diaries
- Notarial acts and wills
- Expense registers and economic documents
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
The notary sketched a crude drawing on Marco Magnavacca’s confession: a figure hanging from a gallows with flames reaching upward (Biondi, Streghe ed eretici, p. 194)
- Other