Domenico Scandella

Basic information

Patronymic
Giovanni
Other names
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Montereale Valcellina, Republic of Venice
Date of birth
1532
Attributed date of birth
No
Age at the time of execution
67
Marital status
Married
Last occupation / Qualification
Miller
Previous occupations

Carpenter; bricklayer.

Religious status
Layperson
Religious order
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
28 September 1583
End date
8 August 1599
Courts involved
Inquisition of Aquileia and Concordia
Extradition
No
Other judges involved
Notes

Sentence

Court
Inquisition of Aquileia and Concordia
Local judge
Girolamo Asteo da Pordenone
Sentence date
8 August 1599
Sentence place
Portogruaro, Republic of Venice
Crime category
Formal heresy
List of crimes

He claims that everyone can be saved through their own faith, and further holds: the rejection of ceremonies, sacred images, the uselessness of purgatory, criticisms of the pope, prelates, and priests. Heterodox ideas and blasphemies.

Reason for conviction
Relapso
Accessory penalties

Execution

Execution date
August 1599
Authority
Provveditore of Portogruaro
Execution place
Portogruaro, Republic of Venice
Execution type
Beheaded and burned
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
Unknown
Notes for execution

Sources

Letters
Local inquisitorial trials and documents

Archivio della Curia Arcivescovile di Udine (ACAU), Sant’Officio, b. 7, fasc. 126.

ACAU, S. Officio, b. 14, fasc. 285.

ACAU, Sententiarum contra reos S. Officii liber II, cc. 1-11.

ACAU, Sententiarum contra reos S. Officii liber II, c 12r.

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

Archivio di Stato di Pordenone, Notarile, b. 488, n. 3786, c 27v.

Expense registers and economic documents
Memorial documents epitaphs etc
Iconography
Other

Archivio Vescovile di Padova, Biblioteca capitolare, Visite, bb. 6, 7: Visitatio apostolica…Concordiensis, cc. n.n., parti riguardanti Montereale; cit. in Del Col (2018).

Archivio Vescovile di Pordenone, Visite pastorali, b. 3, reg. Sacrarum visitationum Nores ab anno 1582 usque ad annum 1584; cit. in Del Col (2018).