Ambrogio Cavalli

Basic information

Patronymic
Other names
Girolamo Cavalli, Ambrogio da Milano, and Ambrogio de Cavoli
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Milan, State of Milan
Date of birth
1500
Attributed date of birth
Yes
Age at the time of execution
56
Marital status
Not applicable
Last occupation / Qualification
Almoner of Renée of France, duchess of Ferrara
Previous occupations

Augustinian hermit friar; Preacher; Lecturer (Padua); Bachelor (Padua); Master of Sacred Theology (Padua); Regent of the Studio Generale (Bologna); Prior of the Convent of San Marco (Milan); vicar of the Bishop of Limassol in Cypro.

Religious status
Cleric
Religious order
Augustinians
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
1537 lenten season
End date
June 1556
Courts involved
Congregation of the Holy Office, Inquisition of Bologna, Inquisition of Ferrara, Inquisition of Venice, Inquisition of Milan
Extradition
Yes
Other judges involved
Notes

Sentence

Court
Congregation of the Holy Office
Local judge
Sentence date
June 1556
Sentence place
Rome, Papal States
Crime category
Formal heresy
List of crimes

Calvinism

Reason for conviction
Pertinacious / impenitent
Accessory penalties

Execution

Execution date
15 June 1556
Authority
Governor of Rome
Execution place
Rome, Papal States, Campo de' Fiori
Execution type
Hanged 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
No
Sacraments imparted
No
Notes for execution

Sources

Letters

Vatican City, Archivio Apostolico Vaticano, Lettere de’ principi, t. 23, n. 8 (in Ludwig von Pastor, Storia dei papi dalla fine del medioevo, v. VI, Roma, Desclée, p. 480n1);

Local inquisitorial trials and documents

Modena, Archivio di Stato, Fondo Fiaschi, b. 42, fasc. II, n. 16 (in Bartolomeo Fontana, Renata di Francia duchessa di Ferrara sui documenti dell’Archivio Estense, del Mediceo, del Gonzaga e dell’Archivio Segreto Vaticano, III, 1561-1575, Roma, Forzani, 1899, pp. XLIV-LII).

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

Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Cod. Urbinate 1038, c. 141v.

Chronicles
Travel diaries
Notarial acts and wills
Expense registers and economic documents
Memorial documents epitaphs etc
Iconography
Other

Related

Related persons
Bibliography

Feci Simona, Cavalli, Ambrogio, in DSI, vol. 1, pp. 314-315;

Fontana Bartolomeo, Renata di Francia duchessa di Ferrara sui documenti dell’Archivio Estense, del Mediceo, del Gonzaga e dell’Archivio Segreto Vaticano, vol. III, 1561-1575, Roma, Forzani, 1899;

Orano Domenico, Liberi pensatori bruciati in Roma dal XVI al XVIII secolo, Roma, Tipografia dell’Unione cooperativa editrice, 1904;

Paschini Pio, Episodi dell’Inquisizione a Roma nei suoi primi decenni, in “Studi romani”, 5/3 (1957), pp. 285-301;

Rozzo Ugo, Cavalli, Ambrogio, in DBI, vol. 22 (1979), pp. 712-714;

Rozzo Ugo, Gli anni ferraresi e la morte sul rogo dell’eremitano Ambrogio da Milano (1547-1556), in Alla corte degli Estensi. Filosofia, arte e cultura a Ferrara nel secolo XV e XVI: atti del Convegno internazionale di studi: Ferrara, 5-7 marzo 1992, ed. Bertozzi, Marco, Ferrara, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, 1994, pp. 299-322;

Rozzo Ugo, Vicende inquisitoriali dell’eremitano Ambrogio Cavalli (1537-1545), in “Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa”, 16 (1980), pp. 223-256;

von Pastor, Ludwig, Storia dei papi dalla fine del medioevo, vol. VI, Roma, Desclée, 1927.

Notes

About Ambrogio Cavalli Venetian trial: Venice, Archivio di Stato, Sant’Uffizio, Processi 1541-1545, b. 1, fasc. 3.

 

 

Entry Author
Mario Sanseverino