Alfonso Ariano
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara
- Date of birth
- 1516
- Attributed date of birth
- Yes
- Age at the time of execution
- 55
- Marital status
- Unknown
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Captain
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- August 1569
- End date
- 12 October 1569
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Ferrara, Inquisition of Adria-Rovigo, Inquisition of Venice
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Start date: denunciation and citation to appear (Rovigo).
End date: sentence.Tortured
Investigation in Ferrara (23 May 1569 – 14 September 1569); cit. in Marchi 1969, p. 239.
Sentence
- Court
- Inquisition of Adria-Rovigo
- Local judge
- Massimiliano Beniami o Pietro Martire Frachetti
- Sentence date
- 12 October 1569
- Sentence place
- Rovigo, Republic of Venice
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
Pro-Calvinist sympathies
26 August 1571, second sentence in Venice; see Marchi 1969.
- Reason for conviction
- Relapso
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 4 September 1571
- Authority
- Podestà and captain of Rovigo
- Execution place
- Rovigo, Republic of Venice
- Execution type
- Strangled and burned at the stake
- 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
Archivio della Curia Arcivescovile di Rovigo (ACVR), Cause Criminali, “Inquisitio de heresi facta contra Alfonsum de Ariano, ferrariensem, expeditur”, 1569-1571; cit. in Malavasi (2005).
- 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