Ludovico Castelvetro
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Giacomo Castelvetro
- Other names
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio
- Date of birth
- 1505
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- Marital status
- Unknown
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Humanist
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 12 june 1542
- End date
- 26 november 1560
- Courts involved
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Start date refers to the sermon delivered by Cardinal Giacomo Sadoleto to the members of the so-called Modenese “academy” gathered around Giovanni Grillenzoni. In that context, the Cardinal explicitly mentioned Castelvetro by name. In 1545 he was accused of being regarded as “lutheranus habitus voce publica”.
End date refers to the sentence pronounced in effigie against Castelvetro following his flight from Rome.
Sentence
- Court
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Local judge
- Sentence date
- 26 november 1560
- Sentence place
- Rome, Papal States
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
- Reason for conviction
- Pertinacious / impenitent
- Accessory penalties
- Seizur
Execution
- Execution date
- 26 november 1560
- Authority
- Execution place
- Rome, Papal States
- Execution type
- Burned in effigy
- In effigy
- Yes
- 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
- No
- Sacraments imparted
- No
- Notes for execution
Execution date refers to the sentence
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
- 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