Viano Viani
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Viadana, 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
- Apothecary
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 1550
- End date
- 24 October 1570
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Ferrara
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Start date: autodafé in 1550
End date: letter of Alfonso Tassoni giving information on the Inquisitor’s intention to delivery Viani to the secular arm
Sentence
- Court
- Inquisition of Ferrara
- Local judge
- Paolo Costabili
- Sentence date
- Before 24 October 1570
- Sentence place
- Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
- Reason for conviction
- Relapso
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- After 23 February 1571
- Authority
- Duke of Ferrara
- Execution place
- Brescello, Duchy of Modena and Reggio
- Execution type
- Burned
- 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
On 23 February 1571 Alfonso II of Este gave authorization for execution, that happened near Brescello, along the banks of the Po river
Sources
- Letters
On the release to the secular arm: Modena, Archivio di Stato, Rettori dello Stato, Reggiano, Reggio Emilia, 27, Alfonso Tassoni to Alfonso II d’Este, 24 October 1570 (edited in Al Kalak Matteo, Una terra «netta e preservata», pp. 80-81)
On the choice of the place for the execution:
Modena, Archivio di Stato, Rettori dello Stato, Reggiano, Reggio Emilia, 155, Anziani di Reggio to Alfonso II d’Este, 29 January 1571 (edited in Al Kalak Matteo, Una terra «netta e preservata», pp. 81-82)
Reggio Emilia, Archivio di Stato, Archivio del Comune, Carteggi, Carteggi degli Anziani, 86, Anziani di Reggio to Alfonso II d’Este, 29 January 1571 (edited in Al Kalak Matteo, Una terra «netta e preservata», pp. 81-82)
On the authorization for execution: Modena, Archivio di Stato, Rettori dello Stato, Reggiano, Brescello, 3, Alfonso II d’Este to Camillo Caula, 23 February 1571 (edited in Al Kalak Matteo, Una terra «netta e preservata», p. 83)
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Modena, Archivio di Stato, Inquisizione, 284, 7, Catalogo dei rei e indiziati (partially edited in Al Kalak, Una terra «netta e preservata», p. 66)
- Decrees and acdf sources
- Legal opinions consultations
- Registers of the condemned
- Other magistracies
- Petitions
- Confraternities
- Medical treatises
- Polemical histories and martyrologies
- Theological and legal texts
- Collections of sermons
- Printed or manuscript notices and reports
- Chronicles
- Travel diaries
- Notarial acts and wills
- Expense registers and economic documents
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
- Other