Andrea Relencini
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Andrea Bellincini
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio
- Date of birth
- 1541
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- 40
- Marital status
- Unknown
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Carpenter
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- End date
- July 1581
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Imola
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Sentence
- Court
- Inquisition of Imola
- Local judge
- [Alberto Cheli]
- Sentence date
- Before 16 July 1581
- Sentence place
- Lugo, Duchy of Ferrara, Modena, and Reggio
- Crime category
- Formal heresy and Magic & witchcraft
- List of crimes
- Reason for conviction
- Relapso
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 16 July 1581
- Authority
- Duke of Ferrara, Modena, and Reggio
- Execution place
- Lugo, Duchy of Ferrara, Modena, and Reggio, Fortress of Lugo
- Execution type
- Strangled 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
- Unknown
- Sacraments imparted
- No
- Notes for execution
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
Bonoli Girolamo, Storia di Lugo ed annessi libri tre, Faenza, nella stampa dell’Archi, 1732, pp. 217-218 (edited in L’Inquisizione romana a Imola, pp. 397-398)
- Travel diaries
- Notarial acts and wills
- Expense registers and economic documents
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc

Plaque placed on September 29, 1907, on the base of the northeast tower of the Lugo fortress, commemorating the burning: “May the memory of Andrea Relencini, strangled and burned near this place in 1581 by sentence of the Holy Roman Inquisition, outlast this stone, and may it warn that the Church tolerates not a shadow of freedom” (Olindo Guerrini)
Largo Andrea Relencini, Lugo
- Iconography
- Other
