Fulgenzio Manfredi

Basic information

Patronymic
Ludovico Manfredi
Other names
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Venice, Republic of Venice
Date of birth
1560
Attributed date of birth
Yes
Age at the time of execution
50
Marital status
Not applicable
Last occupation / Qualification
Doctor in Theology
Previous occupations

preacher
priest of the Observant branch

Religious status
Cleric
Religious order
Franciscans
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
End of the 1606
End date
03 July 1610
Courts involved
Congregation of the Holy Office
Extradition
No
Other judges involved
Notes

Start date refers to the first convocation ad respondendum de fide.

Sentence

Court
Congregation of the Holy Office
Local judge
Sentence date
03 July 1610
Sentence place
Rome, Papal States
Crime category
Formal heresy
List of crimes

Possession of prohibited books; associations with heretics; autograph writings containing attacks upon Catholic doctrine; delegitimisation of the Pope and the Council of Trent.

Reason for conviction
Relapso
Accessory penalties

Execution

Execution date
05 July 1610
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
Arciconfraternita di San Giovanni Decollato
Presence of rebels / riots
No
Sacraments imparted
Unknown
Notes for execution

Sources

Letters
Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Decrees and acdf sources

ADDF, Library of the Trinity College, ms. 1238, Liber sententiarum et abiurationem, f. 574; ms. 1239, f. 273. [Microfilm]

ADDF, Stanza Storica, Ο 1 f (5)

Copies:

  • Vatican City, Archivio Apostolico Vaticano, Fondo Borghese, 1, 25, ff. 215-230, 398-405;
  • Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, ms. 1016, ff. 198-201.
Legal opinions consultations
Registers of the condemned
Other magistracies
Petitions
Confraternities
Medical treatises
Polemical histories and martyrologies

Venice, Biblioteca del Civico Museo Correr, Correr, ms. 1051: Relatione della morte di f. F. M. venetiano seguita in Roma l’anno 1610, a’ 5 dì luglio, de Roma li 28 ott. 1610, cc. 210-235

Other copies:

  • Venice, Biblioteca del Civico Museo Correr, Correr, ms. 1382/2, ff. 5-49 (at the end of this copy the charges against F.M. are listed);
  • Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, ms. 6548, ff. 89-94;
  • Osimo, Biblioteca di Palazzo Campana, ms. donated by Agostino Maria Molin;
  • Hertfordshire, Hatfield House, Papers of Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, ms. 140, ff. 228-240;
  • Cambridge, Trinity College Library, ms. R.3.42, cc. 140-165. (in: Petrolini, “Un salvacondotto e un incendio”, pp. 172-185).
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

Engraved Portrait of Fulgenzio Manfredi, 1608
(ADDF, Stanza Storica, dd 2-b, f. 157).

 

Other

Dublin, Library of the Trinity College, ms. 1238, Liber sententiarum et abiurationem, f. 574; ms. 1239, f. 273.

Venice, Archivio di Stato, Collegio, Esposizione principi, b. 22, c. 91.