Nicolò Del Medico

Informazioni di Base

Patronymic
Other names
Cavanella
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Massa, Duchy of Massa and Carrara
Date of birth
Data attribuita di nascita:
No
Age at the execution time
Marital status
Unknown
Last occupation / Qualification
Previous occupations
Religious status
Layperson
Religious order
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
1723/07/21
End date
1723/12/10
Courts involved
Inquisition of Genoa
Extradition
No
Other judges involved
Note

Start date: imprisonement
End date: reading of the sentence

Sentence

Court
Inquisition of Genoa
Local judge
Andrea Reali
Sentence date
1723/12/10
Sentence place
Duchy of Massa and Carrara - Massa - Church of San Francesco
Crime category
Sacrilege & blasphemy
Lista dei Crimini:

He stole a pyx in the church of Calced Carmelites in Carrara; he ate 215 holy hosts

Reason for conviction
Abuser of hosts
Accessory penalties

Execution

Execution date
1723/12/20
Authority
Ducal Commissary of Massa
Execution place
Execution type
Hanged
In effigy
No
After death
No
Presence of doctors / surgeons
No
Name of the doctors / surgeons:
Presence of comforters
Yes
Name of the comforters
Twenty brothers of the Confraternity of San Rocco, two Capuchins, two Friar minors, the canonics Rocca, Belatti and Stecca, two Masters of Pages of the Duke of Massa (rector Giorgieri and abbot Palchetti)
Presence of rebels / riots
No
Sacraments imparted
Yes
Note for execution

Fonti

Printed or manuscript notices and reports

Succinta relazione del processo, e sentenza Contro Niccolò Del Medico alias Cavanella Della Città di Carrara, Reo di Furto sacrilego, ed ereticale della sagra Pisside con 215 Particole consagrate, Come pure della pubblicazione di detta Sentenza seguita nella Chiesa di S. Francesco de’ RR. PP. Minori Osservanti della Città di Massa nel giorno 12 Dicembre 1723, Modena, Bartolomeo Soliani, 1724

Chronicles

On the sentence and the abjuration:

Massa, Archivio di Stato, Raccolta Lunigianese Manoscritti, 117, Volpini Antonio, Annali di Massa dal 1716 al 1738, vol. 1, cc. 409r-411r

On the execution:

Massa, Archivio di Stato, Raccolta Lunigianese Manoscritti, 117, Volpini Antonio, Annali di Massa dal 1716 al 1738, vol. 1, c. 412rv

Other

Letters:

Instructions from Rome on the reading of the sentence: Agente Bernabò to Andrea Reali, Rome, 27 November 1723 (edited in Canosa, Storia dell’Inquisizione, pp. 200-201)