Giovanni Mancini

Basic information

Patronymic
Other names
Giovanni Cortese and Cortese de Terra Casemassime
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Casamassima, 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
21 March 1613
End date
25 April 1613
Courts involved
Congregation of the Holy Office
Extradition
Unknown
Other judges involved
Notes

Start date refers to the first mention of Giovanni Mancini in ADDF registers;
End date refers to the decree of conviction.

Sentence

Court
Congregation of the Holy Office
Local judge
Sentence date
25 April 1613
Sentence place
Rome, Papal States, Palazzo del Sant'Uffizio
Crime category
Sacrilege & blasphemy
List of crimes

Celebration of Masses without being ordained priest

 

Reason for conviction
Fake priest
Accessory penalties

Execution

Execution date
22 October 1613
Authority
Governor of Rome
Execution place
Rome, Papal States, Campo de' Fiori
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
Arciconfraternita di San Giovanni Decollato
Presence of rebels / riots
No
Sacraments imparted
Yes
Notes for execution

Sacraments imparted: confession and communion

Sources

Letters
Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Decrees and acdf sources

Vatican City, ADDF, S.O., Decreta, reg. 064 (1613), ff. 143, 191.

Legal opinions consultations
Registers of the condemned
Other magistracies
Petitions
Confraternities

Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 8, v. 17, ff. 28v-29r.

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

Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 8, v. 17, f. 29r.

Expense registers and economic documents

Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 8, v. 17, f. 29r.

Memorial documents epitaphs etc
Iconography
Other