Prospero d'Imperatore

Basic information

Patronymic
Other names
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Western North Africa (Barbary)
Date of birth
1540
Attributed date of birth
Yes
Age at the time of execution
40
Marital status
Married
Last occupation / Qualification
cobbler
Previous occupations

Slave, maybe worker in a sugar refinery

Religious status
Layperson
Religious order
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
1575
End date
19 January 1582
Courts involved
Congregation of the Holy Office, Inquisition of Florence, Inquisition of Palermo
Extradition
Yes
Other judges involved
Notes

Start date refers to the Palermo trial

Sentence

Court
Congregation of the Holy Office
Local judge
fra' Dionigi Sammattei Costacciari
Sentence date
13 February 1583
Sentence place
Rome, Papal States, Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva
Crime category
Formal heresy
List of crimes

Calvinism

Reason for conviction
Relapso
Accessory penalties

Execution

Execution date
18 February 1583
Authority
Governor of Rome
Execution place
Rome, Papal States, Campo de' Fiori
Execution type
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, communion

Sources

Letters
Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Decrees and acdf sources

ACDF, S.O., Decreta, 1582, cc. 165r-166v.

Legal opinions consultations
Registers of the condemned
Other magistracies
Petitions
Confraternities

Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 6, v. 13, Giornale, cc. XLVIII

Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 6, v. 12, Libro del proveditore, cc. 91v-92.

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

Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 6, v. 13, Giornale, cc. XLVIII

Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 6, v. 12, Libro del proveditore, cc. 91v-92.

Expense registers and economic documents

Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 6, v. 12, Libro del proveditore, c. 92v.

Memorial documents epitaphs etc
Iconography
Other