Vincenza Ferrarese
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Genre
- Female
- Place of origin
- Bologna, Papal States
- Date of birth
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- Marital status
- Married
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 1559 before March 21th
- End date
- 11 May 1559
- Courts involved
- Congregation of the Holy Office, Inquisition of Bologna
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- General Vicar of the Bishop of Bologna Giovan Battista Castelli; Bishop of Bologna Giovanni Campeggi; pope Paolo IV
- Notes
First Costituto was on March 21th
Sentence
- Court
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Local judge
- fra’ Eustachio Locatelli
- Sentence date
- 11 May 1559
- Sentence place
- Rome, Papal States
- Crime category
- Magic & witchcraft and Sacrilege & blasphemy
- List of crimes
- participation in the sabba
- apostasy to the Devil
- blasphemy
- diabolical magic
- love magic
- maleficia (or malevolent enchantments)
- abuse of the consecrated Host
- Reason for conviction
- Gravity of crimes "criminum enormitate"
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 27 May 1559
- Authority
- Tribunale Criminale del Torrone
- Execution place
- Bologna, Papal States, Piazza del Mercato
- Execution type
- Hanged and Burned
- 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
- No
- Sacraments imparted
- Unknown
- Notes for execution
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
- Decrees and acdf sources
ACDF, S.O., St. St., EE 1-a, cc. nn.;
ACDF, S.O., Decreta Sancti Officii, Decreta, vol. II
- Legal opinions consultations
Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, ms. Vaticano Latino 5468, cc. 136v-139r.
- 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
Bologna, Archivio di Stato, Atti dei notai del distretto di bologna / Miscellanea sec. XVI, Archivio del notaio Macchiavelli Orazio, filza 1.
- Expense registers and economic documents
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
- Other
Bologna, Archivio di Stato, Senato, Instrumenti e scritture, Instrumenti A, libro 40, fasc. 42