Girolamo Donzellini
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Buonamonte
- Other names
- Donzellino
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Orzinuovi, Republic of Venice
- Date of birth
- 1513
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- 74
- Marital status
- Married
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Physician
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 20 September 1553
- End date
- January 1587
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Venice
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Sentence
- Court
- Inquisition of Venice
- Local judge
- Angelo Mirabino da Faenza o Stefano Guaraldi da Cento
- Sentence date
- 1587/01/01 - 1587/01/31
- Sentence place
- Venice, Republic of Venice
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
Involvement in smuggling and possessing forbidden books; interest in Calvinist thought and possible adhesion to the dogma of double pre-destination; friendships and professional relations with Protestant scientists, heterodox printers, and unorthodox alchemists; see Celati (2023), p. 163.
His trial dossier does not contain either the final sentence or the records of the last proceedings; see Celati (2023), p. 163.
- Reason for conviction
- Relapso
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- Beginning of 1587
- Authority
- Execution place
- Venice, Republic of Venice
- Execution type
- Drowned
- 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 di Stato di Venezia (ASV), Sant’Uffizio (SU), Processi, b. 39, fasc. “Contro Girolamo Donzellini”.
ASV, SU, Processi, b. 59, fasc. “Contro Giorgio Valgrisi”.
ASV, SU, Processi, b. 59, fasc. “Contro Claudio Textor Francese”.
Cit. in Celati (2023), p. 171.
- 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