Case #1802

Case Description

While travelling from Peschiera to Governolo to purschase animals, Giovanni Battista Scotti, Don Lorenzo Borgogni, and Don Alfonso Scopelli were attacked by supposedly German musketeers. According to the latter two Scotti was killed by an arquebus shot and Borgogni was wounded in the face while Scopelli fled. Later, the survivors instead claimed that Scotti was only wounded and brought to Cremona as a prisoner. Instead, investigators suspected that the Preti brothers, colluding with Scotti's wife Livia, were behind the killing.

Motive

Scotti's corpse was looted suggesting robbery. However, if the Preti brothers and Scotti's wife Livia were the killers it was likely motivated by the fact that Scotti physically abused his wife and kept her locked away in their house not allowing her to leave or visit with others.

Legal Record

Court

Council of Ten

Outcome

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

Witnesses

Archival Sources

Source

Capi di Consiglio di Dieci

Archival location

Rettori di Verona, #200

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