Celestino da Verona
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Lattanzio Arrigoni
- Other names
- Giovanni Antonio Arrigoni
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Verona, Republic of Venice
- Date of birth
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- Marital status
- Not applicable
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Subdeacon
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Cleric
- Religious order
- Capuchins
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 1587 before february 17th
- End date
- 24 August 1599
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Venice, Congregation of the Holy Office
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Start date refers to the conclusion of the first trial: abjuration de vehementi
Sentence
- Court
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Local judge
- Sentence date
- 24 August 1599
- Sentence place
- Rome, Papal States, Palazzo del Sant'Uffizio
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
Jesus Christ did not accomplish the redemption of humankind.
- Reason for conviction
- Pertinacious / impenitent
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 16 September 1599
- Authority
- Governor of Rome
- Execution place
- Rome, Papal States, Campo de' Fiori
- Execution type
- burned alive
- 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
- No
- Notes for execution
On september 15th the comforters tried to convert Celestino in extremis but he remained pertinacious
Sources
- Letters
Florence, Archivio di Stato, Mediceo del Principato, filza 3623, cc. nn., c. [2v]. (in De Robertis, 2021, p. 178)
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
- Decrees and acdf sources
Sentence in: Firpo Luigi, Quaglioni Diego, Il processo di Giordano Bruno, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 1993, p. 126.
- Legal opinions consultations
- Registers of the condemned
- Other magistracies
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Tribunale criminale del governatore, registrazione d’atti, reg. 136, c. 186v. (in: De Robertis, 2021, p. 181 and Di Sivo, Verdi, 2012, pp. 526-527)
- Petitions
- Confraternities
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 8, v. 16, Giornale, cc. 68v-69r (in: De Robertis, 2021, pp. 179-180)
- 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
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 8, v. 16, Giornale, c. 69r
(in De Robertis, 2021, p. 180)
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
Drawing in: Rome, Archivio di Stato, Tribunale criminale del governatore, registrazione d’atti, reg. 136, c. 186v (in Di Sivo, Verdi, 2012, p. 525)
- Other