Bianca Nievo Angaran

Basic information

Patronymic
Bartolomeo
Other names
Genre
Female
Place of origin
Vicenza, Republic of Venice
Date of birth
1531
Attributed date of birth
No
Age at the time of execution
Marital status
Married
Last occupation / Qualification
Silk manufacturer and merchant
Previous occupations

Noble (involved in the production and sale of silk fabrics); poet

Religious status
Layperson
Religious order
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
1560
End date
1588
Courts involved
Inquisition of Vicenza, Congregation of the Holy Office
Extradition
No
Other judges involved
Notes

Start date: first trial
End date: year of the execution

Sentence

Court
Congregation of the Holy Office
Local judge
Sentence date
Sentence place
Rome, Papal States
Crime category
Formal heresy
List of crimes
Reason for conviction
Relapso
Accessory penalties

Execution

Execution date
1 March 1588
Authority
Rectors of Vicenza
Execution place
Vicenza, Republic of Venice
Execution type
Strangled in prison
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

“1588, 1 Marzo. Il giorno de Carnevale, cioè la notte precedente fu strangolata la sig.a Bianca Angarana moglie del conte Giacomo per l’Ofizio della Inquisizione, e per sentenzia di Roma per esser relapsa; pur si è riconosciuta delli suoi errori e morta cristiana. Questa istessa notte è sta fatto morir uno relapso da Breganze, che era in prigione condannato a morte”; cit. in Fornasa (2018), p. 35.

Sources

Letters
Local inquisitorial trials and documents
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

Archivio di Stato di Vicenza (ASVI), Archivio Arnaldi, b. 97, “Memorie di Arnaldo Arnaldi Tornieri”, c. 59; cit. in Fornasa (2018), p. 35.