Girolamo Meoli
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Emilio Meoli
- Other names
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Monte Santo di Fermo, Papal States
- Date of birth
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- 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
- Notes
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
- Rome, Papal States, Palazzo del Sant'Uffizio
- Crime category
- Others and Solicitation
- List of crimes
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 November 1614
- Authority
- Governor of Rome
- Execution place
- Rome, Papal States, Palazzo del Sant'Uffizio
- 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
- Notes for execution
Sources
- Letters
Vatican City, Archivio Apostolico Vaticano, Segreteria di Stato, Principi, 172, f. 474r. (in Angione, In Parte d’Infedeli, p. 56n137).
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
- Decrees and acdf sources
Vatican City, ACDF, Sant’Officio, Decreta Sancti Officii 1614, p. 257.
- Legal opinions consultations
- Registers of the condemned
- Other magistracies
- Petitions
- Confraternities
Roma, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di San Giovanni Decollato, busta 8, reg. 16, f. 29; reg. 17, f. 80r.
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 8, v. 17, ff. 80r-80v.
- Medical treatises
- Polemical histories and martyrologies
- Theological and legal texts
- Collections of sermons
- Printed or manuscript notices and reports
Roma, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Sessoriano, ms. Sess. 270, 11.
- Chronicles
- Travel diaries
- Notarial acts and wills
- Expense registers and economic documents
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 8, v. 17, ff. 80r-80v.
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
- Other