Giorgio Siculo

Basic information

Patronymic
Other names
Giorgio Rioli
Genre
Male
Place of origin
San Pietro in Clarenza, Kingdom of Sicily
Date of birth
1517
Attributed date of birth
Yes
Age at the time of execution
34
Marital status
Unknown
Last occupation / Qualification
Previous occupations
Religious status
Cleric
Religious order
Benedictines
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
September 1550
End date
30 March 1551
Courts involved
Inquisition of Ferrara
Extradition
No
Other judges involved
Cardinal Michele Ghislieri; Girolamo Scroguerro, benedictine abbot of S. Faustino (Brescia)
Notes

Start date: arrest
End date: autodafé

Sentence

Court
Inquisition of Ferrara
Local judge
Girolamo Papino
Sentence date
Sentence place
Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara
Crime category
Formal heresy
List of crimes

He denied the efficacy of the sacraments, miracles, the existence of purgatory and hell, and the doctrine of the Trinity; he rejected the divine infusion of the soul, claiming instead that it was transmitted by man himself from God

Reason for conviction
Relapso
Accessory penalties

Execution

Execution date
23 May 1551
Authority
Duke of Ferrara
Execution place
Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara, Castello Estense
Execution type
Strangled
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

He was strangled by night in the Palazzo Estense, without spectators and hanged at a window of Palazzo della Ragione

Sources

Letters
Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Decrees and acdf sources

ACDF, Decreta 1548-1558, c. 40r (edited in Prosperi, L’eresia del Libro Grande, p. 437)

Legal opinions consultations
Registers of the condemned

Ferrara, Biblioteca Ariostea, ms. Classe I, 404, Libro delli giustiziati, c. 30v (edited in Mazzi, «Gente a cui si fa notte innanzi sera», p. 145)

Ferrara, Archivio dei residui ecclesiastici presso la Curia arcivescovile, Confraternita di San Giovanni Battista, b. 87, Carcerati conforteria, p. 26 (edited in Prosperi, L’eresia del Libro Grande, p. 19)

«Libro delli giustiziati, secondo i codici di Ferrara e del Vaticano» (edited in Fontana, Renata di Francia, vol. 2, p. 279)

 

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Printed or manuscript notices and reports
Chronicles

On the autodafé: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Lat. 12587, Croniche di Ferrara del Biondi e di altri autori, c. 56v (edited in Prosperi, L’eresia del Libro Grande, p. 232)

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