Tommaso Scurta

Basic information

Patronymic
Other names
Tommaso da Finale
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Finale Emilia, Duchy of Modena and Reggio
Date of birth
Attributed date of birth
No
Age at the time of execution
Marital status
Unknown
Last occupation / Qualification
Previous occupations
Religious status
Unknown
Religious order
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
1561
End date
29 August 1568
Courts involved
Inquisition of Ferrara, Inquisition of Reggio Emilia
Extradition
No
Other judges involved
Notes

Start date: denunciation
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

Archivio di Stato di Modena, Inquisizione, 5, 14

Archivio di Stato di Modena, Inquisizione, 284, 7, Catalogo dei rei e indiziati

 

Decrees and acdf sources
Legal opinions consultations
Registers of the condemned

Ferrara, Biblioteca Ariostea, ms. Classe I, 404, Libro delli giustiziati, c. 39v (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; Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea di Ferrara, 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

On the arrest: Ferrara, Curia Arcivescovile, Archivio dei residui ecclesiastici, S. Domenico, b. 1M, 1N (from Prosperi, «Il budget», p. 137)

 

 

 

Memorial documents epitaphs etc
Iconography
Other