Girolamo Meoli
Informazioni di Base
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Monte Santo di Fermo, Papal States
- Date of birth
- Data attribuita di nascita:
- No
- Age at the execution time
- Marital status
- Unknown
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Secretary for the English ambassador at the Porte (Thomas Glover)
- Previous occupations
Assistant of the the head notary of the Holy Office (Quintiliano Adriani)
Informant for Spain and correspondant from Istanbul for the cardinal-nephew (Scipione Borghese)- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 1606
- End date
- In 1614 before November, 29th
- Courts involved
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Extradition
- Yes
- Other judges involved
- Note
The start date refers to his escape to Istanbul after stealing 2,000 scudi from the Holy Office; the end date corresponds to the period between his escape from the Holy Office’s prisons and his execution.
Sentence
- Court
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Local judge
- Sentence date
- In 1614 before November, 29th
- Sentence place
- Papal States - Rome - Palazzo del Sant'Uffizio
- Crime category
- Others and Solicitation
- Lista dei Crimini:
stealing 2,000 scudi from the Holy Office and forging documents of the inquisitorial cardinals.
- Reason for conviction
- stealing 2,000 scudi from the Holy Office and forging documents of the inquisitorial cardinals
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 29/11/1614
- Authority
- Governor of Rome
- Execution place
- 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
- Note for execution
Fonti
- Letters
Vatican City, Archivio Apostolico Vaticano, Segreteria di Stato, Principi, 172, f. 474r. (in Angione, In Parte d’Infedeli, p. 56n137).
- Decrees and acdf sources
Vatican City, ACDF, Sant’Officio, Decreta Sancti Officii 1614, p. 257.
- Confraternities
Roma, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di San Giovanni Decollato, busta 8, reg. 16, f. 29; reg. 17, f. 80r.
- Printed or manuscript notices and reports
Roma, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Sessoriano, ms. Sess. 270, 11.