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The inquisition in the Spanish dependencies: Sicily—Naples—Sardinia—Milan—the Canaries—Mexico—Peru—New GranadaLea, Henry Charles

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The inquisition in the Spanish dependencies: Sicily—Naples—Sardinia—Milan—the Canaries—Mexico—Peru—New Granada

Name: The inquisition in the Spanish dependencies: Sicily—Naples—Sardinia—Milan—the Canaries—Mexico—Peru—New Granada
Author: Lea, Henry Charles

Lea, Henry Charles

Inquisition

San Sisto being thus settled, Bucchianico proceeded to La Guardia with
Fra Valerio and a commissioner named Pansa appointed by the viceroy to
execute justice. Many of the inhabitants fled, but returned under
promise of pardon--their flight being subsequently held as relapse into
the errors which they had previously abjured. These numbered 300 men and
100 women, the latter of whom were sent to Cosenza, while the former,
together with the captives of San Sisto, were carried to Montalto, where
a sort of inquisitorial tribunal was formed, consisting of Fra Valerio,
Pansa, and two auditors, Barone and Cove. These divided the prisoners
between them and each proceeded to employ torture indiscriminately to
force them to confess the foul practices ascribed to them and to profess
conversion. Those who were condemned were confined in a warehouse and
their sentence was read in presence of a crowd gathered from all the
neighboring towns. The auto de fe which followed, June 11, 1561, is
described in a letter written the same day from Montalto by a Catholic
who cannot conceal his profound horror at the scene. From their place of
confinement the executioner led his victims one by one, bandaging their
eyes with the bloody rag which had served for their predecessors. Like
sheep to the slaughter they were thus taken to the public square where
he cut their throats; they were then quartered and the fragments were
distributed on poles along the roads from one end of Calabria to the
other--a spectacle which another pious contemporary describes as fearful
to the heretic while confirming the true believer in the faith. The
number thus butchered on that day amounted to eighty-eight, while in
addition there were seven who had triumphed over the torture and refused
to recant their heresies, and these were to be burnt alive as
impenitents. Sentence of death was also pronounced against a hundred of
the older women; the whole number of captives was reckoned at 1600, all
of whom were condemned. The writer adds that unless the Holy See and the
viceroy interfere, Bucchianico will not hold his hand until he has
destroyed them all.[150]

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The inquisition in the Spanish dependencies: Sicily—Naples—Sardinia—Milan—the Canaries—Mexico—Peru—New GranadaLea, Henry Charles

History

The inquisition in the Spanish dependencies: Sicily—Naples—Sardinia—Milan—the Canaries—Mexico—Peru—New Granada

Lea, Henry Charles

Inquisition

San Sisto being thus settled, Bucchianico proceeded to La Guardia with
Fra Valerio and a commissioner named Pansa appointed by the viceroy to
execute justice. Many of the inhabitants fled, but returned under
promise of pardon--their flight being subsequently held as relapse into
the errors which they had previously abjured. These numbered 300 men and
100 women, the latter of whom were sent to Cosenza, while the former,
together with the captives of San Sisto, were carried to Montalto, where
a sort of inquisitorial tribunal was formed, consisting of Fra Valerio,
Pansa, and two auditors, Barone and Cove. These divided the prisoners
between them and each proceeded to employ torture indiscriminately to
force them to confess the foul practices ascribed to them and to profess
conversion. Those who were condemned were confined in a warehouse and
their sentence was read in presence of a crowd gathered from all the
neighboring towns. The auto de fe which followed, June 11, 1561, is
described in a letter written the same day from Montalto by a Catholic
who cannot conceal his profound horror at the scene. From their place of
confinement the executioner led his victims one by one, bandaging their
eyes with the bloody rag which had served for their predecessors. Like
sheep to the slaughter they were thus taken to the public square where
he cut their throats; they were then quartered and the fragments were
distributed on poles along the roads from one end of Calabria to the
other--a spectacle which another pious contemporary describes as fearful
to the heretic while confirming the true believer in the faith. The
number thus butchered on that day amounted to eighty-eight, while in
addition there were seven who had triumphed over the torture and refused
to recant their heresies, and these were to be burnt alive as
impenitents. Sentence of death was also pronounced against a hundred of
the older women; the whole number of captives was reckoned at 1600, all
of whom were condemned. The writer adds that unless the Holy See and the
viceroy interfere, Bucchianico will not hold his hand until he has
destroyed them all.[150]

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

The inquisition in the Spanish dependencies: Sicily—Naples—Sardinia—Milan—the Canaries—Mexico—Peru—New Granada

The inquisition in the Spanish dependencies: Sicily—Naples—Sardinia—Milan—the Canaries—Mexico—Peru—New Granada

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