Cesare Santoro

Basic information

Patronymic
Other names
Cesare di Stalatti and Cesare di Stalettì
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Stalettì, Kingdom of Naples
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
1570 before 12 July
End date
12 July 1570
Courts involved
Bishop Court of Squillace
Extradition
No
Other judges involved
Notes

End date refers to Marcello Sirleto’s letter to his uncle Guglielmo Sirleto, bishop of Squillace, in which he reported that the sentence against Cesare Santoro had been read and that the execution had taken place

Sentence

Court
Bishop Court of Squillace
Local judge
Vicar of the Bishop of Squillace, Marcello Sirleto; Bishop of Squillace, Guglielmo Sirleto
Sentence date
12 July 1570
Sentence place
Squillace, Kingdom of Naples, Cathedral
Crime category
Formal heresy
List of crimes
Reason for conviction
Relapso
Accessory penalties

Execution

Execution date
12 July 1570
Authority
Prince of Squillace
Execution place
Squillace, Kingdom of Naples
Execution type
Hanged 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
No
Sacraments imparted
Yes
Notes for execution

Sacraments imparted: confession and communion

Sources

Letters

Letter of Marcello Sirleto to Guglielmo Sirleto, dated 12 July 1570 (in: Gennaro Maria Monti, Studi sulla Riforma cattolica e sul papato nei secoli XVI-XVII, Trani, 1941, p. 251)

ADDF, Stanza Storica, LL3c, ff. 907r–v, 954r; letter of Francesco Thodia to Scipione Rebiba, with related enclosure, 3 April 1573 (in: Gian Luca D’Errico, Le lettere delle diocesi del Regno di Napoli alla Congregazione del Sant’Uffizio, 1554-1643 (parte seconda), Trieste, Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2026, p. 497.

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Decrees and acdf sources

ADDF, Stanza Storica, LL3c, ff. 907r–v, 954r; letter of Francesco Thodia to Scipione Rebiba, with related enclosure, 3 April 1573 (in: Gian Luca D’Errico, Le lettere delle diocesi del Regno di Napoli alla Congregazione del Sant’Uffizio, 1554-1643 (parte seconda), Trieste, Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2026, p. 497.

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