Case #2045

Case Description

Olivo Cellini, Ser Giacomo and Ser Giovanni Soranzo are sentenced for housing foreigners with Cellini and sharing state secrets in pursuit of a cardinalship. Giovanni Soranzo escapes punishment while Giacomo is banished for life to Capodistria, and Cellini to life imprisonment.

Legal Record

Court

Inquisitori di Stato

Trial phase

sentence

Outcome

Filled indicator = recorded in source; hollow = not recorded or not applicable.

Archival Sources

Source

L. Donà, Relazione di un processo istituito nel 1584 contro Giacomo Soranzo, Cavalier e Procuratore di San Marco, a.c. di G. Musatti, Venezia, 1865

Archival location

Consiglio dei dieci, Deliberazioni criminali, reg. 14, cc. 157r-158r, 161v-162r, 164r-165v, 168r-169r, 173r-174r;

Reference

ASVe.IS.1256B_145|Corr.MSPD.171_360

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