Bianca Nievo Angaran
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Bartolomeo
- Other names
- Genre
- Female
- Place of origin
- Vicenza, Republic of Venice
- Date of birth
- 1531
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- Marital status
- Married
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Silk manufacturer and merchant
- Previous occupations
Noble (involved in the production and sale of silk fabrics); poet
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 1560
- End date
- 1588
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Vicenza, Congregation of the Holy Office
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Start date: first trial
End date: year of the execution
Sentence
- Court
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Local judge
- Sentence date
- Sentence place
- Rome, Papal States
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
- Reason for conviction
- Relapso
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 1 March 1588
- Authority
- Rectors of Vicenza
- Execution place
- Vicenza, Republic of Venice
- Execution type
- Strangled in prison
- 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
- Unknown
- Sacraments imparted
- Yes
- Notes for execution
“1588, 1 Marzo. Il giorno de Carnevale, cioè la notte precedente fu strangolata la sig.a Bianca Angarana moglie del conte Giacomo per l’Ofizio della Inquisizione, e per sentenzia di Roma per esser relapsa; pur si è riconosciuta delli suoi errori e morta cristiana. Questa istessa notte è sta fatto morir uno relapso da Breganze, che era in prigione condannato a morte”; cit. in Fornasa (2018), p. 35.
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
- Travel diaries
- Notarial acts and wills
- Expense registers and economic documents
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
- Other
Archivio di Stato di Vicenza (ASVI), Archivio Arnaldi, b. 97, “Memorie di Arnaldo Arnaldi Tornieri”, c. 59; cit. in Fornasa (2018), p. 35.