Baldassarre Bambinaro

Basic information

Patronymic
Giovanni
Other names
Baldassarre di Santa Maria del Gallo
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Venice, Republic of Venice
Date of birth
Attributed date of birth
No
Age at the time of execution
Marital status
Unknown
Last occupation / Qualification
Doll maker
Previous occupations

Painter

Religious status
Layperson
Religious order
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
1543
End date
15 January 1567
Courts involved
Inquisition of Bologna, Inquisition of Ferrara
Extradition
No
Other judges involved
Girolamo Menghini, auditore of Tribunale Criminale del Torrone
Notes

The start date refers to the first inquisition trial (Ferrara)

Sentence

Court
Inquisition of Bologna
Local judge
Antonio Balducci
Sentence date
15 January 1567
Sentence place
Bologna, Papal States, San Domenico
Crime category
Formal heresy
List of crimes

Anabaptism.

It rejected the authority of the Pope and the veneration of saints, the efficacy of suffrages for the dead, the value of the Mass, confession to a priest, monastic vows and chastity, pilgrimages, and the real presence of the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist, which it regarded as possessing merely symbolic significance. Furthermore, it denied free will and advocated for adult baptism.

He participates in the Eucharist more luteranorum et hereticorum (in the manner of Lutherans and heretics).

Reason for conviction
Relapso
Accessory penalties

Execution

Execution date
19 January 1567
Authority
Tribunale Criminale del Torrone
Execution place
Bologna, Papal States, San Petronio
Execution type
Hanged and Burned
In effigy
No
After death
No
Presence of doctors / surgeons
Name of the doctors / surgeons
Presence of comforters
Name of the comforters
Presence of rebels / riots
Sacraments imparted
Notes for execution

Sources

Letters
Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Decrees and acdf sources

Vatican City, ADDF, Sant’Officio, Stanza Storica, EE 1-a.

Legal opinions consultations
Registers of the condemned
Other magistracies

Bologna, Archivio di Stato, Tribunale del Torrone, Atti processuali, reg. 395, anno 1567, c. 57-61;

Bologna, Archivio di Stato, Tribunale del Torrone, Atti processuali, reg. 393, cc. 57v-59v.

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