Domenico Mazzarelli

Basic information

Patronymic
Other names
Domenico Mazzarello and Ferrato
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Rovigo, Republic of Venice
Date of birth
Attributed date of birth
No
Age at the time of execution
Marital status
Married
Last occupation / Qualification
Notary
Previous occupations

Lawyer; teacher; member of the Accademia degli Addormentati; minister of an Italian Protestant community.

Religious status
Layperson
Religious order
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
13 September 1564
End date
11 December 1570
Courts involved
Inquisition of Adria-Rovigo
Extradition
No
Other judges involved
Notes

Sentence

Court
Inquisition of Adria-Rovigo
Local judge
[Pietro Martire Frachetti da Rovigo]
Sentence date
1570/12/11
Sentence place
Rovigo, Republic of Venice
Crime category
Formal heresy
List of crimes

Falsely converted and contumacious

Calvinism

Reason for conviction
Pertinacious / impenitent
Accessory penalties

Execution

Execution date
3 November 1571
Authority
Podestà and captain of Rovigo
Execution place
Rovigo, Republic of Venice
Execution type
Burned in effigy
In effigy
Yes
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
Unknown
Notes for execution

Sources

Letters
Local inquisitorial trials and documents

ACVR (Archivio della Curia Vescovile di Rovigo), Cause Criminali, b. 2, “Processus de heresi contra Dominicum Mazzarellum de anno 1564, nec non contra donnam Lauram uxorem predicti Domini”; cit. in Seidel Menchi (1987), p. 379.

ACVR, Cause Criminali, b. 4, “Contra Dominicum Mazzarelum de Rhodigio, 1570”; cit. in Seidel Menchi (1987), p. 379.

ACVR, Inquisitio contra nonnullos fautores Dominici Mazzarelli, 1571; cit. in Malavasi (2005), p. 77.

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