Margarita de Laurino

Basic information

Patronymic
Other names
Genre
Female
Place of origin
Date of birth
Attributed date of birth
No
Age at the time of execution
Marital status
Unknown
Last occupation / Qualification
Previous occupations
Religious status
Layperson
Religious order
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
End date
16 May 1506
Courts involved
Extradition
No
Other judges involved
Geronimo Fonseca, Regent of the Gran Corte della Vicaria; Mazzeo Marzato, neapolitan canon, acting on behalf of Jacobo Carduino, bishop of Lipari and vicar of Naples; four royal councillors and judges of the Gran Corte della Vicaria
Notes

Start date is unknown
End date refers to the reading of the sentence

Sentence

Court
Local judge
Bernaba Capograsso da Salerno, Dominican friar, general inquisitor of the faith and inquisitor delegate
Sentence date
16 May 1506
Sentence place
Naples, Kingdom of Naples
Crime category
Magic & witchcraft
List of crimes

Witchcraft/sorcery; poisonings; homicides; other crimes; alleged demonic marital relations.

Reason for conviction
Accessory penalties

Execution

Execution date
around 16 May 1506
Authority
Gran Corte della Vicaria
Execution place
Naples, Kingdom of Naples
Execution type
burned alive
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
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

Napoli, Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, ms. Brancacciano II F 6, Notar Giacomo, Cronica di Napoli, C. 149v rr. 1-14 (in: De Chiara De Caprio, Scrivere la storia a Napoli tra Medioevo e prima età moderna, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2012, p. 117)

Travel diaries
Notarial acts and wills
Expense registers and economic documents
Memorial documents epitaphs etc
Iconography
Other

Related

Related persons
Lisabetta de Megdiolano, Penta Guarnaza Cecata
Bibliography

Amabile Luigi, Il Santo Officio della inquisizione in Napoli, vols. 1-2, Città di Castello, Lapi tipografia editrice, 1892;

De Caprio Chiara, Scrivere la storia a Napoli tra Medioevo e prima età moderna, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 2012;

De Ceglia Francesco Paolo, Pierroberto Scaramella (a cura di), I demoni di Napoli. Naturale, preternaturale, sovrannaturale a Napoli e nell’Europa di età moderna, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2021, p. XIII.

Lea Henry Charles, The inquisition in the Spanish Dependencies. Sicily-Naples-Sardinia-Milan-The Canaries-Mexico-Peru-New Granada, New York, The Macmillan Company, 1922, p. 57.

Notes

The royal councillors and judges of the Gran Corte della Vicaria were: Messer Berardino de Marchese, Messer Berardino Galiota, Messer Tommaso Senescalco of Capua, and Messer Rodrigo Luxan, a Spaniard and doctor of both laws.

Entry Author
Mario Sanseverino