Paolo Camillo Balsamo
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Giuliano
- Other names
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Liscate, State of Milan
- Date of birth
- 1540
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- 31
- Marital status
- Unknown
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Nobleman
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 18 March 1569
- End date
- 3 April 1571
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Milan
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Carlo Borromeo, archbishop of Milan
- Notes
Start date: notice of appearance
End date: sentence
Sentence
- Court
- Inquisition of Milan
- Local judge
- Angelo Zampa
- Sentence date
- 3 April 1571
- Sentence place
- Milan, State of Milan
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
He denied the presence of Christ in the Eucharist, he denied the absolution powers of the clergy, he denied the existence of the Purgatory, he denied the power of the prayers to the Saints and the cult of their images, he denied the effectiveness of the Jubilees, he denied the authority of the pope and the clergy, he sustained the clerical marriage
- Reason for conviction
- Pertinacious / impenitent
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- After 3 April 1571
- Authority
- Captain of Justice
- Execution place
- Milan, State of Milan
- Execution type
- Burned
- In effigy
- Yes
- After death
- No
- Presence of doctors / surgeons
- No
- Name of the doctors / surgeons
- Presence of comforters
- No
- Name of the comforters
- Presence of rebels / riots
- No
- Sacraments imparted
- No
- Notes for execution
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Sentence:
Milano, Archivio di Stato, Atti di Governo, Finanze Confische, 310, fasc. «Balsamo, diversi», sottofasc. «Balsamo Paolo Camillo», cc. 1r-3r (edited in Rivoire, Contributo alla storia della Riforma, pp. 86-88)
- 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
On the confiscation of assets:
Milano, Archivio di Stato, Atti di Governo, Finanze Confische, 310, fasc. «Balsamo, diversi», sottofasc. «Balsamo Paolo Camillo»
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
- Other