Giacinto Centini
Informazioni di Base
- Patronymic
- Giovanni
- Other names
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Ascoli, Papal States
- Date of birth
- 1597
- Data attribuita di nascita:
- No
- Age at the execution time
- 38
- Marital status
- Married
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Nobleman
- Previous occupations
Governor of Nereto
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 1633
- End date
- 22/04/1635
- Courts involved
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Note
Sentence
- Court
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Local judge
- Sentence date
- 22/04/1635
- Sentence place
- Papal States - Rome - Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva
- Crime category
- Magic & witchcraft
- Lista dei Crimini:
Having performed various acts of sorcery to bring about the death of Pope Urban VIII through rituals involving a wax effigy, with the aim of securing the election of Cardinal Felice Centini to the papacy.
- Reason for conviction
- crimen laesae maiestatis divinae et humanae (papal bull Inscrutabilis Iudiciorum Dei 1/04/1631)
- Accessory penalties
- Seizur
Execution
- Execution date
- 23/04/1635
- Authority
- Governor of Rome
- Execution place
- Execution type
- beheaded
- 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
- Unknown
- Note for execution
Fonti
- Printed or manuscript notices and reports
Roma, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Sessoriano, ms. Sess. 270 (in M. Rosi, La congiura di Giacinto Centini contro Urbano VIII, pp. 366-369)
Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, mss. Vaticano Latino 7850; 8193; 8891
Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, mss. Urbinate Latino 1103; 1647; 1704; 1737
Venezia, Archizio di Stato, Senato. Dispacci Roma, filza 111, lettera del 28 aprile 1635
Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, It. XI, cod. 79 (=7231)
- Chronicles
Roma, Biblioteca Casanatense, n. 1336, Theodoro Ameyden, Vitae et Elogia Summorum Pontif. et Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae cardinalium, suo aevo defunctorum ad Urbanum filium
Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, ms. Barberiniano Latino, 4735, Andrea Nicoletti, Della vita di papa Urbano ottavo e istoria del suo pontificato, vol. 6.