Antenore Ghirlingani

Basic information

Patronymic
Other names
Antenore Gherlinzano
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Bologna, Papal States
Date of birth
Attributed date of birth
No
Age at the time of execution
Marital status
Unknown
Last occupation / Qualification
Weaver
Previous occupations
Religious status
Layperson
Religious order
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
16 August 1565
End date
8-29 november 1572
Courts involved
Inquisition of Bologna, Congregation of the Holy Office
Extradition
No
Other judges involved
Angelo Peruzzi, vicar of the bishop of Bologna
Notes

Start date refers to a self-denunciation to the inquisitor of Bologna

Sentence

Court
Congregation of the Holy Office
Local judge
Innocenzo Morandi, vicar of the inquisitor of Bologna, Antonio Balducci
Sentence date
08 November 1572 - 29 November 1572
Sentence place
Bologna, Papal States, San Domenico
Crime category
Formal heresy
List of crimes

lutheran: he questions the presence of Christ in the Eucharist, denies the existence of purgatory, and rejects the intercession of saints.

Reason for conviction
Relapso
Accessory penalties

Execution

Execution date
09 December 1572
Authority
Tribunale Criminale del Torrone
Execution place
Bologna, Papal States, San Petronio
Execution type
burned alive
In effigy
No
After death
No
Presence of doctors / surgeons
Unknown
Name of the doctors / surgeons
Presence of comforters
Yes
Name of the comforters
Arciconfraternita di Santa Maria della Morte
Presence of rebels / riots
No
Sacraments imparted
Yes
Notes for execution

Sources

Letters

Bologna, Biblioteca dell’Archiginnasio di Bologna, ms. 1860, n° LX and n° LXVI.

Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Decrees and acdf sources

Vatican City, ADDF, S.U., St. St., EE 1-b, c. 828r.

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

Bologna, Archivio generale Arcivescovile di Bologna, Ricuperi attuariali, filza 165, 9 giugno 1572.

Expense registers and economic documents
Memorial documents epitaphs etc
Iconography
Other