Niccolò Del Medico
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Cavanella
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Massa, Duchy of Massa and Carrara
- Date of birth
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- Marital status
- Unknown
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 21 July 1723
- End date
- 10 December 1723
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Genoa, Congregation of the Holy Office
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Start date: imprisonement
End date: reading of the sentence
Sentence
- Court
- Inquisition of Genoa
- Local judge
- Andrea Reali
- Sentence date
- 10 December 1723
- Sentence place
- Massa, Duchy of Massa and Carrara, Church of San Francesco
- Crime category
- Sacrilege & blasphemy
- List of crimes
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
- 20 December 1723
- Authority
- Ducal Commissary of Massa
- Execution place
- Massa, Duchy of Massa and Carrara, Forecourt next to the Canale delle Grondini
- 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
- Notes for execution
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
- 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
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
- Travel diaries
- Notarial acts and wills
- Expense registers and economic documents
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
- 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)