Giovanni Della Dia

Basic information

Patronymic
Other names
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Adria, Republic of Venice
Date of birth
Attributed date of birth
No
Age at the time of execution
Marital status
Not applicable
Last occupation / Qualification
Previous occupations
Religious status
Cleric
Religious order
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
1568
End date
29 August 1568
Courts involved
Inquisition of Ferrara
Extradition
No
Other judges involved
Notes

Start date: arrest
End date: sentence

Sentence

Court
Inquisition of Ferrara
Local judge
Paolo Costabili
Sentence date
29 August 1568
Sentence place
Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara
Crime category
Formal heresy
List of crimes

Follower of Giorgio Siculo’s preaching

Reason for conviction
Relapso
Accessory penalties

Execution

Execution date
4 September 1568
Authority
Duke of Ferrara
Execution place
Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara
Execution type
Beheaded 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
Presence of rebels / riots
Unknown
Sacraments imparted
Unknown
Notes for execution

Sources

Letters
Local inquisitorial trials and documents

Venezia, Archivio della Curia patriarcale, Archivio Segreto Sant’Uffizio, b. 2, 1561-1585, Processo Severi, c. 94r

Modena, Archivio di Stato, Inquisizione, 5.14

Decrees and acdf sources
Legal opinions consultations
Registers of the condemned

Ferrara, Biblioteca Ariostea, ms. Classe I, 404, Libro delli giustiziati, c. 39r (edited in Mazzi, «Gente a cui si fa notte innanzi sera», p. 156)

Other magistracies
Petitions
Confraternities
Medical treatises
Polemical histories and martyrologies
Theological and legal texts
Collections of sermons
Printed or manuscript notices and reports
Chronicles

Modena, Biblioteca Estense, Raccordi diversi della città di Ferrara, ms. ital. 530 a R. 42

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ottob. Lat. 2774

Ferrera, Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea, ms. cl. I, n. 404, f. 39rv (edited in Fontana, Renata di Francia, vol. 3, p. 193)

 

Travel diaries
Notarial acts and wills
Expense registers and economic documents
Memorial documents epitaphs etc
Iconography
Other

Related

Related persons
Giorgio Siculo, Giovanni Paiano, Tommaso Scurta
Bibliography

Dall’Olio Guido, Il controllo dell’eresia tra zelo e ragion di Stato (1530-1570), in Storia di Ferrara, vol. 6, Il Rinascimento. Situazioni e personaggi, Ferrara, Corbo, 2000, pp. 215-230

Dall’Olio Guido, Ferrara, in DSI, vol. 2, pp. 588-589

Fontana Bartolommeo, Renata di Francia, duchessa di Ferrara. Sui documenti dell’Archivio estense, del Mediceo, del Gonzaga e dell’Archivio Secreto Vaticano (1537-1560), vol. 3, Roma, Forzani, 1899, p. 193

Mazzi Maria Serena, «Gente a cui si fa notte innanzi sera». Esecuzioni capitali e potere nella Ferrara estense, Roma, Viella, 2003, p. 156

Prosperi Adriano, L’eresia del Libro Grande. Storia di Giorgio Siculo e della sua setta, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2000, pp. 277-278, 280-281

Raffaelli Renato, Notizie intorno a Francesco Severi, ‘il medico d’Argenta’, in «Studi urbinati. Linguistica, letteratura, arte», 56 (1983), p. 109

Notes
Entry Author
Stefano Tomassetti