Marco Antonio de Dominis
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Girolamo di Cristoforo
- Other names
- Marc'Antonio De Dominis and Marcantonio De Dominis
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Arbe (Rab), Republic of Venice
- Date of birth
- 1560-1560
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- 64
- Marital status
- Not applicable
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Bishop
- Previous occupations
Archbishop of Spalato; theologian; bishop of Segna; Jesuit
- Religious status
- Cleric
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 15 april 1612
- End date
- 21/12/1624
- Courts involved
- Congregation of the Holy Office, Inquisition of Venice
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Start date refers to the date of compromising letters concerning De Dominis’s ideas, sent to Rome by the nuncio in Venice. Officially, however, the first processus informativus of the Venetian Holy Office against De Dominis opened on 17 November 1616, following the condemnation of some of his works by the Congregation of the Index and his flight to England in September 1616.
Sentence
- Court
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Local judge
- Sentence date
- 21 december 1624
- Sentence place
- Rome, Papal States, Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
Several propositions on the need to set aside the more contentious doctrines—such as the intercession of the saints, the cult of images, the real presence of the Eucharist, the number of the sacraments, justification by faith, indulgences, purgatory, and papal primacy—in order to enable the reunion of all Christian Churches. Opposition to many Tridentine decrees.
- Reason for conviction
- Relapso
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 21 december 1624
- Authority
- Execution place
- Rome, Papal States, Campo de' Fiori
- Execution type
- Burned after death
- In effigy
- No
- After death
- Yes
- 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
- Yes
- Notes for execution
His exhumed body, together with his portrait and his writings, was consigned to the flames.
He was administered the sacraments on the night of his death, between 8 and 9 September 1624.
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Venice, Archivio di Stato, Santo Ufficio di Venezia, b. 71. (in Ljubic, 1870)
- 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
Theotimus Eupistinus [Francesco Antonio Zaccaria], De doctis catholicis viris qui cl. Justino Febronio
in scriptis suis retractandis ab anno MDLXXX laudabili exemplo praeiverunt, Romae, ex typographio Salomoniano, 1791, p. 138.Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, ms. 4111, ff. 63-73.