Bianca Capretti
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Genre
- Female
- Place of origin
- Malvino, Duchy of Milan
- Date of birth
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- Marital status
- Married
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- End date
- 12 July 1520
- Courts involved
- Extradition
- Other judges involved
- Antonio Ricci (episcopal vicar of Carezzano)
- Notes
The proceeding ended two days after the sentence issued by the inquisitor, because a second sentence was issued by the local vicar of the bishop of Tortona.
Sentence
- Court
- Local judge
- Pietro Martire Bragheri
- Sentence date
- 10 July 1520
- Sentence place
- Crime category
- Magic & witchcraft
- List of crimes
- Reason for conviction
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- after 12 July 1520
- Authority
- Execution place
- Castellania, Duchy of Milan
- Execution type
- burning at the stake
- In effigy
- No
- After death
- No
- Presence of doctors / surgeons
- Name of the doctors / surgeons
- Presence of comforters
- Name of the comforters
- Presence of rebels / riots
- Sacraments imparted
- Notes for execution
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Archivio Apostolico Vaticano, Congregazione dei Vescovi e Regolari, Cause e processi, b. 953, ff. 465r-468v (published in Sergio Pagano, La condanna al rogo di tre streghe e l’esecuzione sul “bricco” di Castellania (1520), in «Rivista di storia, arte, archeologia per le province di Alessandria e Asti» CX (2001), pp. 259-287: 282-287).
- 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