Bartolomeo Fonzio
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Filippo
- Other names
- Michelangelo Castellano Sabino
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Venice, Republic of Venice
- Date of birth
- 1502
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- 60
- Marital status
- Not applicable
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Preacher
- Previous occupations
Professor; school teacher
- Religious status
- Cleric
- Religious order
- Franciscans
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 27 May 1558
- End date
- 27 June 1562
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Venice
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Start date: arrest.
End date: death sentence.
Sentence
- Court
- Inquisition of Venice
- Local judge
- Tommaso da Vicenza
- Sentence date
- 27 June 1562
- Sentence place
- Venice, Republic of Venice
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
Lutheranism; Anabaptism; Heretical propositions.
- Reason for conviction
- Pertinacious / impenitent
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 4 August 1562
- Authority
- Captain of the Inquisition
- Execution place
- Venice, Republic of Venice
- Execution type
- Drowned
- 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
Drowned with a stone tied to his chest (Venice, lagoon).
Sources
- Letters
Archivio di Stato di Venezia (ASV), Sant’Uffizio (SU), Processi, b. 19, Letter by the lawyer Nicola Zaccato (or Zacatto) concerning Fonzio’s execution, 23 August 1562; cit. in Stella (1969), p. 110.
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Archivio di Stato Venezia (ASV), Sant’Uffizio (SU), Processi, b. 18, fasc. “Bartolomeo Fonzio”.
- 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
- Travel diaries
- Notarial acts and wills
- Expense registers and economic documents
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
- Other