Andrea Filippo Pini
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Lunardo
- Other names
- Pietro Niegri, Michele Butturini, and abbot Venier
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Belluno, Republic of Venice
- Date of birth
- 1671
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- 65
- Marital status
- Married
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Fake priest
- Previous occupations
Spice dealer
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 18 March 1736
- End date
- 1 March 1736
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Padua, Inquisition of Venice
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Notes
Start date: arrest in Padua.
End date: death sentence.
Sentence
- Court
- Inquisition of Padua
- Local judge
- Antonio Girolamo Cagnacci
- Sentence date
- 18 March 1736
- Sentence place
- Padua, Republic of Venice
- Crime category
- Sacrilege & blasphemy
- List of crimes
He falsely assumed the role of a priest; he celebrated sacred rites and administered the sacraments without any legitimate ordination or authority.
“[…] d’aver tenuto e creduto che sia lecito ad una persona laica sfornita di qualunque carattere sacerdotale il celebrare la messa, ed amministrare li santi sagramenti della chiesa, come credono e tengono gli eretici luterani”; cit. in Veronese (2010), p. 220.
- Reason for conviction
- Abuser of hosts
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 5 May 1736
- Authority
- Council of Ten
- Execution place
- Venice, Republic of Venice, Between the two columns in St. Mark’s Square
- Execution type
- Beheaded and burned
- 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
- Unknown
- Notes for execution
Decapitation and posthumous incineration of the body.
Sources
- Letters
Archivio di Stato di Venezia (ASV), Consiglio dei Dieci, lettere dei rettori e altre cariche ai Capi, lettere da Padova, b. 107, cc. n. n. (Letters from the Rectors to the Heads of the Council of Ten).
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
ASV, Sant’Uffizio (SU), Processi, b. 150.
ASV, SU, Processi, b. 140, fasc. «Processo contro Negri, don Pietro», testimony of Francesco Baratto, 17 December 1726.
- Decrees and acdf sources
Archivio della Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede (ACDF), Decreta S.O. 1736, cc. 99r-v, 1marzo 1736.
- Legal opinions consultations
ASV, Senato, Deliberazioni Roma expulsis papalistis, fz. 40.
ASV, Consultori in iure, fz. 202, cc. 77r-80v.
- Registers of the condemned
- Other magistracies
ASV, Consiglio dei Dieci, Parti criminali, b. 140, reg. 153, 18 March 1736 (copy of the death sentence); cit. in Veronese (2010), p. 224.
- Petitions
- Confraternities
ASV, Miscellanea Codici, Storia Veneta, Serie I, 75a-78, “Registro dei giustiziati della Scuola di Santa Maria e Gerolamo della Consolazione, c. n. n., 4 May 1736”.
- Medical treatises
- Polemical histories and martyrologies
- Theological and legal texts
- Collections of sermons
- Printed or manuscript notices and reports
Relazione della Giustizia seguita in Venezia li 5 maggio 1736 della morte data ad Andrea Pini d’anni 45 in circa reo di molte colpe da lui commesse, condennato ad esser decapitato, Venezia, Brescia, Verona, Mantova, ed in Parma, per Giacopo Antonio Gozzi, 1736.
- Chronicles
- Travel diaries
- Notarial acts and wills
- Expense registers and economic documents
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
- Other