Battista Farina

Basic information

Patronymic
Other names
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Novara, Duchy of Milan
Date of birth
Attributed date of birth
No
Age at the time of execution
Marital status
Unknown
Last occupation / Qualification
Artisan
Previous occupations
Religious status
Layperson
Religious order
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
1569
End date
28 September 1586
Courts involved
Inquisition of Vercelli, Inquisition of Novara
Extradition
No
Other judges involved
Cipriano Uberti, Inquisitor of Vercelli
Notes

Start date: denunciation
End date: sentence

Sentence

Court
Inquisition of Novara
Local judge
Domenico Buelli
Sentence date
28 September 1586
Sentence place
Novara, Duchy of Milan
Crime category
Unbelief / misbelief / heretical propositions
List of crimes

he denied the power of the Holy Spirit, he denied the role of the clergymen and the pope in the remission of sins, he doubted about the role of Christ in Salvation, he contested the ecclesiastical celibacy

 

Reason for conviction
Relapso
Accessory penalties

Execution

Execution date
20 November 1586
Authority
Governor of Novara
Execution place
Novara, Duchy of Milan
Execution type
Burned
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

First sentence: Vercelli, Archivio Storico Civico, Not. Francesco Bernardino de Moxo, filza 4, 6 agosto 1569

 

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

Uberti Cipriano, Tavola delli inquisitori, Novara, Francesco Sesalli, 1586, f. 17, n. 238

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

Pio Giovanni Michele, Della nobile et generosa progenie del p. S. Domenico in Italia. Libri Due, Bologna, Bartolomeo Cochi, 1615, p. 404