Jacopo Strada

Basic information

Patronymic
Giovanni Rinaldo
Other names
Giacobo Strada and Giacomo Strada
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
Date of birth
1515
Attributed date of birth
No
Age at the time of execution
66
Marital status
Widow/er
Last occupation / Qualification
Architect, antiquarian
Previous occupations
Religious status
Layperson
Religious order
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
18 June 1568
End date
4 June 1581
Courts involved
Inquisition of Mantua
Extradition
No
Other judges involved
Notes

Start date: firs information on the attempted arrest
End date: sentence

Sentence

Court
Inquisition of Mantua
Local judge
Giulio Dossi
Sentence date
4 June 1581
Sentence place
Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
Crime category
Formal heresy
List of crimes
Reason for conviction
Contumacious
Accessory penalties
Loss of the canonry of Mantua cathedral

Execution

Execution date
26 July 1581
Authority
Duke of Mantua
Execution place
Mantua, Duchy of Mantua, Piazza San Pietro
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

On the execution:

Alessandro Rosa to Guglielmo Gonzaga, 26 July 1581 (edited in Davari, Cenni storici, p. 799)

Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Decrees and acdf sources

Trinity College Dublin, ms. 1225, c. 135rv

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

Related

Related persons
Bibliography

Bertolotti Antonino, Martiri del libero pensiero e vittime della Santa Inquisizione nei secoli XVI, XVII e XVIII, Roma, Forni, 1891

Berzaghi Alessio, Per ben adempiere al proprio dovere. La sede mantovana del Sant’Uffizio tra XVI e XVIII secolo, PhD dissertation, Università degli studi di Verona, 2010

Davari Stefano, Cenni storici intorno al Tribunale dell’Inquisizione in Mantova, in «Archivio Storico Lombardo», 6.4, 1879, pp. 773-800

Jansen Dirk Jacob, Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at the Imperial Court. The Antique as Innovation, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2019

Jansen Dirk Jacob, ‘A House for All Sorts of People’: Jacopo Strada’s Contacts with Italian Heterodox Exiles, in Fruits of Migration. Heterodox Italian Migrants and Central European Culture 1550-1620, ed. Cornel Zwierlein and Vincenzo Lavenia, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2018, pp. 178-231

Louthan Howard, The Quest for Compromise. Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997

Mattei Francesca, Strada, Jacopo, in DBI, vol. 94, 2019, ad vocem

Pagano Sergio, Il processo di Endimio Calandra e l’Inquisizione a Mantova nel 1567-1568, Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1991

Notes
Entry Author
Stefano Tomassetti