Achille Rubini
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Achille Robino
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Date of birth
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- Marital status
- Unknown
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Silk weaver
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 1582
- End date
- 30 July 1587
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Venice
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Star date: first proceeding (abjuration).
End date: death sentence.Tortured
Sentence
- Court
- Inquisition of Venice
- Local judge
- Angelo Mirabino da Faenza
- Sentence date
- 30 July 1587
- Sentence place
- Venice, Republic of Venice
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
He denied the Virginity of the Virgin Mary; he rejected the cult of images, the efficacy of indulgences, and the existence of Purgatory. He also used to read the Bible in the vernacular.
- Reason for conviction
- Relapso
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 31 July 1587
- Authority
- Sant'Uffizio on behalf of the State
- Execution place
- Venice, Republic of Venice
- Execution type
- Drowned at night
- 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
Drowned at night, outside the lagoon (beyond the Two Castles).
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Archivio di Stato di Venezia (ASV), Sant’Uffizio (SU), Processi, b. 50, fasc. “Robino Achille”; cit. in Del Col, Milani (1998), p. 185.
- 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