Antonio di Francesco

Basic information

Patronymic
Jacomo di Francesco
Other names
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Faeto, 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
29 November 1608
End date
03 December 1609 - 15 December 1609
Courts involved
Congregation of the Holy Office, Inquisition of Siena
Extradition
Yes
Other judges involved
Notes

Sentence

Court
Congregation of the Holy Office
Local judge
Sentence date
03 December 1609 - 15 December 1609
Sentence place
Rome, Papal States
Crime category
Formal heresy
List of crimes

Calvinism

Reason for conviction
Relapso
Accessory penalties

Execution

Execution date
15 December 1609
Authority
Governor of Rome
Execution place
Rome, Papal States, Campo de' Fiori
Execution type
Hanged
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 San Giovanni Decollato
Presence of rebels / riots
No
Sacraments imparted
Unknown
Notes for execution

Hanged and not burned for his abjuration and conversion

Sources

Letters
Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Decrees and acdf sources

ACDF, Siena, Processi, vol. 21, cc. 926-929;

ACDF, S.O., Stanza Storica, Decreta 1609, cc. 491, 496.

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

Vatican City, Archivio Apostolico Vaticano, Miscellanea Armadi III, n. 8, T. 4, c. 365v. (in Firpo Luigi, Esecuzioni capitali in Roma (1567-1671), p. 323.)

Related

Related persons
Bibliography

Di Simplicio Oscar, ed., Le lettere della Congregazione del Sant’Ufficio all’inquisitore di Siena, 1581-1721, Trieste, EUT, 2009;

Firpo Luigi, Esecuzioni capitali in Roma (1567-1671), in Eresia e riforma nell’Italia del Cinquecento: miscellanea 1., Albano Biondi et al., Firenze, Sansoni, Chicago, The Newberry library, 1974, pp. 309-342;

Orano Domenico, Liberi pensatori bruciati in Roma dal XVI al XVIII secolo, Roma, 1904;

Tedesco Vincenzo, Un fallito tentativo di proselitismo calvinista all’inizio del seicento: il caso di Antonio di Francesco da Faeto, in “Non conformismo religioso” nel Mezzogiorno d’italia dal Medioevo all’Età contemporanea. Per ricordare i Cinquecento anni dalla Riforma protestante, eds. Alfonso Tortora, Claudio Azzara, Avellino, Il Terebinto, 2018, pp. 51-70.

 

Notes

In his text, Luigi Firpo confuses the Apulian diocese of Troia with the French diocese of Troyes, as well as Faeto with Fays, and thus erroneously assumes that Antonio di Jacomo di Francesco was a French Huguenot. Vincenzo Tedesco, on the other hand, correctly identifies the character’s origin but, despite referencing Firpo’s text, fails to recognize the correspondence between Antonio di Francesco and Antonio di Jacomo di Francesco, losing track of him immediately after his repentance and abjuration (24 November 1609 and 3 December 1609, respectively). Consequently, in Tedesco’s text, Antonio di Francesco is not listed among those sentenced to death by the Inquisition.

 

Entry Author
Mario Sanseverino