Giovanni Antonio Bellinelli
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Giacomo Bellinelli
- Other names
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Massa of Carrara, Duchy of Massa
- Date of birth
- 1544
- Attributed date of birth
- Yes
- Age at the time of execution
- 43
- Marital status
- Not applicable
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Necromancer
- Previous occupations
Priest
Franciscan friar- Religious status
- Cleric
- Religious order
- Franciscans
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 1586
- End date
- 16 July 1587
- Courts involved
- Congregation of the Holy Office, Archbishop Court of Naples, Inquisition of Malta
- Extradition
- Yes
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Start date refers to his denunciation before the Inquisition of Naples
Sentence
- Court
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Local judge
- Sentence date
- 16 July 1587
- Sentence place
- Rome, Papal States, Palazzo del Sant'Uffizio
- Crime category
- Magic & witchcraft
- List of crimes
-
Practice of sorcery, necromancy, and idolatry;
-
Being deemed an apostate from the Christian faith due to the aforementioned acts of sorcery, necromancy, and idolatry;
-
Reading and possession of books and writings concerning sorcery, necromancy, and other prohibited materials;
-
Celebrating Holy Mass and administering orders while under excommunication and suspension;
-
Pernicious falsification and usurpation of the supreme patriarchal priesthood;
-
Illicit exercise of the authority to bless crowns, grant indulgences, dispense from vows, and permit the consumption of meat by members of religious orders bound by institution or vow to abstain;
-
Engaging in such acts to the manifest damnation of his own soul and to the grave detriment and seduction of the souls of the faithful
-
- Reason for conviction
- Pertinacious / impenitent
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 06 August 1587
- Authority
- Governor of Rome
- Execution place
- Rome, Papal States, Campo de' Fiori
- Execution type
- Hanged and Burned
- 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 and communion
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
- Decrees and acdf sources
ADDF, S.O., Decreta Sancti Officii, 1587, cc. 1; 44 (digitalised version online)
- Legal opinions consultations
- Registers of the condemned
- Other magistracies
- Petitions
- Confraternities
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 7, v. 14, Giornale del Provveditore, cc. 74r-75r.
- Medical treatises
- Polemical histories and martyrologies
- Theological and legal texts
- Collections of sermons
- Printed or manuscript notices and reports
Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, codice Urbinate Latino, ms. 1055, cc. nn.
- Chronicles
- Travel diaries
- Notarial acts and wills
- Expense registers and economic documents
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 7, v. 14, Giornale del Provveditore, c. 75r.
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
- Other