Girolamo Biscaccia
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Gerolamo Biscaccia and Girolamo Biscazza
- 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
- Unknown
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Notary
- Previous occupations
Member of the Accademia degli Addormentati
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 17 September 1564
- End date
- 1 April 1570
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Adria-Rovigo, Inquisition of Venice, Congregation of the Holy Office
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Start date: ban.
End date: death sentence.6 October 1564: abjuration.
30 October 1569: spontaneous appearance (last proceeding).
Sentence
- Court
- Inquisition of Adria-Rovigo
- Local judge
- [Pietro Martire Frachetti da Rovigo]
- Sentence date
- 1 April 1570
- Sentence place
- Rovigo, Republic of Venice
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
Lutheranism; possession of forbidden books.
He believed that priests did not have the power to absolve thieves; he doubted the authority of the Pope, the existence of purgatory, and the veneration of images.
- Reason for conviction
- Relapso
- Accessory penalties
- Confiscation of goods
Execution
- Execution date
- 2 April 1570
- Authority
- Podestà and captain of Rovigo
- Execution place
- Rovigo, Republic of Venice
- Execution type
- Burned at the stake
- 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 Vescovile di Rovigo (ACVR), Cause criminali, b. 2, fasc. “Abiurationes secrete facte de anno 1564″; cit. in Marchi (1969), p. 205.
ACVR, Cause criminali, b. 4, fasc. “Contra Lodovicum Biscatiam, 1569”; AVRO, Cause criminali, b. 4, fasc. “contra D. Hyeronimum Biscatiam, combustus, 1569” (cit. in Malavasi, 1991, p. 136).
Archivio di Stato di Venezia (ASV), Sant’Uffizio (SU), Processi, b. 27, fasc. “Contra Hieronymum Biscaccia, 1569”; cit. in Marchi (1969).
- 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