Natale Gioioso
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Natale Gioiosi
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- 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
- Before 10 March 1563
- End date
- 27 November 1568
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Modena
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Start date: autodafé (10 March 1563)
End date: delivery to the secular arm
Sentence
- Court
- Inquisition of Modena
- Local judge
- Angelo Morabini
- Sentence date
- Before 27 November 1568
- Sentence place
- Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
[He denied the cult of saints; he rejected the authority of the pontiffs; he denied the real presence; he rejected the priesthood; he denied the value of fasting and ecclesiastical discipline]
- Reason for conviction
- Relapso
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- After 27 November 1568
- Authority
- Governor of Modena
- Execution place
- Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio, Porta Sant'Agostino
- Execution type
- Burned in the coffin
- In effigy
- No
- After death
- Yes
- Presence of doctors / surgeons
- Yes
- Name of the doctors / surgeons
- As he died in prison before the sentence, a surgeon was engaged for ascertain the causes of his death
- Presence of comforters
- No
- Name of the comforters
- Presence of rebels / riots
- No
- Sacraments imparted
- No
- Notes for execution
He died in prison (2 November 1568) before being sentenced to death: he was buried, then exhumed and burned in his coffin
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Modena, Archivio di Stato, Inquisizione, 5.8
Ferrara, Curia Arcivescovile, Archivio dei residui ecclesiastici, S. Domenico, b. 1M, 1N
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- Expense registers and economic documents
Payment to the porters for exhuming Gioioso’s coffin, transporting it and delivering it to the secular arm; expenses for the surgeon’s dissection: Ferrara, Curia Arcivescovile, Archivio dei residui ecclesiastici, S. Domenico, b. 1M, 1N
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- Iconography
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