Case #3518

Case Description

The Ruffoni brothers Bartolomeo and Giovanni Battista ordered their mercenary Francesco Jorighino to attack Father Basilio, the Vice-Prior of the Franciscan Friars of Busolengo, and to have him threaten the witnesses being examined in a case against the Ruffoni for their crimes. They summoned Basilio to their house and when he refused the brothers and the Jorighino brothers and other armed henchmen cornered the victim while out walking. They pursued him armed with cocked arquebuses and he narrowly escaped and hid himself.

Motive

witness suppression

Legal Record

Court

Council of Ten

Trial phase

denunciation

Outcome

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

Archival Sources

Source

Capi di Consiglio di Dieci

Archival location

Rettori di Verona, #200

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