Agostino Vanzo

Basic information

Patronymic
Other names
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Schio, Republic of Venice
Date of birth
1524
Attributed date of birth
No
Age at the time of execution
56
Marital status
Married
Last occupation / Qualification
Physician
Previous occupations
Religious status
Layperson
Religious order
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
1566
End date
11 June 1580
Courts involved
Inquisition of Belluno, Inquisition of Vicenza
Extradition
No
Other judges involved
Notes

Sentence

Court
Inquisition of Vicenza
Local judge
Damiano Rossi
Sentence date
11 June 1580
Sentence place
Vicenza, Republic of Venice
Crime category
Formal heresy
List of crimes

Author of an anti-clerical poem; beliefs aligned with Anabaptism; possession of forbidden books.

Reason for conviction
Relapso
Accessory penalties
Confiscation of goods

Execution

Execution date
1580
Authority
Rectors of Vicenza
Execution place
Vicenza, Republic of Venice
Execution type
Burned at the stake
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

Sources

Letters
Local inquisitorial trials and documents

Archivio vescovile di Belluno (AVB), sez. 1, rep. IV, b. 11, Processo Venzo, 1579-1580.

Trinity College Dublin, Reel 8, Sec. J, ms 1225, f. 344v.

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