Giovanni Bergomozzi
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Rovigo, Republic of Venice
- Date of birth
- About 1500
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- 70
- Marital status
- Unknown
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Merchant
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 1563
- End date
- 2 February 1570
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Ferrara, Inquisition of Modena
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Start date: denunciation
End date: sentence
Sentence
- Court
- Inquisition of Modena
- Local judge
- Paolo Costabili
- Sentence date
- 2 February 1570
- Sentence place
- Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
He was part of a heretical group who rejected the existence of Purgatory, rejected the authority of the pope, rejected the real presence of Christ’s body and blood in the Eucharist, dismissed the efficacy of prayers for the dead, had no faith in the Council’s reform efforts, criticized and denounced the magnificence of liturgical garments and the wealth of the Church.
- Reason for conviction
- Contumacious
- Accessory penalties
- Confiscation of assets
Execution
- Execution date
- 4 February 1570
- Authority
- Governor of Modena
- Execution place
- Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio
- 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
On the proceedings:
Modena, Archivio di Stato, Inquisizione, b. 4-5
- 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
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
- Other