Pompeo Delli Monti
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Giovanni Battista Delli Monti
- Other names
- Pompeo de' Monti
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Naples, Kingdom of Naples
- Date of birth
- 1516
- Attributed date of birth
- Yes
- Age at the time of execution
- 50
- Marital status
- Unknown
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Nobleman
- Previous occupations
Military man
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- Before October 1554
- End date
- 14 June 1566
- Courts involved
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Extradition
- Yes
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Start date refers to the first trial concluded with abiuration in October, 23th.
Sentence
- Court
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Local judge
- Sentence date
- 14 June 1566
- Sentence place
- Rome, Papal States, Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
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That it is permissible to eat meat on any and all days without distinction.
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That priests may lawfully take wives without committing sin.
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That indulgences and Jubilees possess no spiritual efficacy whatsoever.
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That the Pope holds no authority beyond that of an ordinary priest, and that he is neither the Vicar of Christ nor the successor of Saint Peter.
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That the confession made to priests is not a matter of divine precept.
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- Reason for conviction
- Relapso
- Accessory penalties
- Seizur
Execution
- Execution date
- 03 July 1566
- Authority
- Governor of Rome
- Execution place
- Rome, Papal States, Ponte Sant'Angelo square
- Execution type
- beheaded and burned
- 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
Sacraments imparted: confession and communion
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
- Decrees and acdf sources
ADDF, St. St., I 4-b (10), c. 2v; St. St., I 4-b (4), cc. 1, 5r.
- Legal opinions consultations
- Registers of the condemned
- Other magistracies
- Petitions
- Confraternities
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 3, v. 6, Giornale, cc. 23v-24v;
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 3, v. 7, Libro del proveditore, cc. 15v-16r.
- Medical treatises
- Polemical histories and martyrologies
Philippus Camerarius, Relatio vera et solida de captivitate Romana. In Schelhorn, Johann Georg. De vita, fatis ac meritis Philippi Camerarii […], accedit […] eius relatio de captivitate sua Romana et liberatione fere miraculosa nunc primum a ms. edita. Noribergae, Seitz & Zeller, 1740, pp. 7-8.
- Theological and legal texts
- Collections of sermons
- Printed or manuscript notices and reports
- Chronicles
- Travel diaries
- Notarial acts and wills
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 3, v. 6, Giornale, cc. 23v-24v;
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 3, v. 7, Libro del proveditore, cc. 15v-16r.
- Expense registers and economic documents
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
Epitaffio in the church of Santa Maria la Nova in Naples: “Araldo de Montibus, cui verborum nullum unquam ex ore eius excidit, unde quisquam posset offendi. Pompeius de Montibus patrueli optimo et homini rarissimo, memoriae caussa. Anno M.D.L.VII” (in Schraderi, Monumentorum Italiae…, Helmaestadii, 1592, f. 232r-v.)
- Iconography
- Other
Dublin, Library of the Trinity College of Dublin, ms. 1225, cc. 71r-72r (in Benrath, Atti degli Archivi, pp. 503-505; Maggiulli, Pompeo delli Monti, pp. 74-78).