Filippo Porroni

Basic information

Patronymic
Other names
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Rome, Papal States
Date of birth
Attributed date of birth
No
Age at the time of execution
Marital status
Married
Last occupation / Qualification
Warden of the Inquisition prisons at Borgo
Previous occupations
Religious status
Layperson
Religious order
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
01 August 1569 - 11 February 1570
End date
11 February 1570
Courts involved
Congregation of the Holy Office
Extradition
No
Other judges involved
Notes

Start date refers to the period from the discover of the violation and the execution; end date refers to execution.

Sentence

Court
Congregation of the Holy Office
Local judge
Sentence date
01 August 1569 - 11 February 1570
Sentence place
Rome, Papal States, Palazzo del Sant'Uffizio
Crime category
Others
List of crimes

Violation of the seal of secrecy; conveyance of correspondence to and from inmates held under the authority of the Inquisition.

Reason for conviction
Violation of the seal of secrecy
Accessory penalties

Execution

Execution date
11 February 1570
Authority
Governor of Rome
Execution place
Rome, Papal States, Palazzo del Sant'Uffizio
Execution type
Hanged
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
Yes
Notes for execution

sacraments imparted: confession
Filippo Porroni was executed by hanging at the threshold of the Palace of the Holy Office.

Sources

Letters
Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Decrees and acdf sources
Legal opinions consultations
Registers of the condemned
Other magistracies
Petitions
Confraternities

Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 3, v. 7, Libro del proveditore, cc. 175

Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 4, v. 8, Giornale dei giustiziati, cc. 87v-88.

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

Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 3, v. 7, Libro del proveditore, cc. 175

Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 4, v. 8, Giornale dei giustiziati, cc. 87v-88.

Expense registers and economic documents

Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 3, v. 7, Libro del proveditore, cc. 175

Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 4, v. 8, Giornale dei giustiziati, cc. 87v-88.

Memorial documents epitaphs etc
Iconography
Other

Vatican City, Archivio Apostolico Vaticano, Miscellanea armadi IX, t. 55, “Constituta et examina contra Nicolaum Francum Beneventanum et alios” (in in Angelo Mercati, I costituti di Niccolò Franco dinanzi l’Inquisizione di Roma, Città del Vaticano, 1955)