• The Venetian Inquisition, formally the Holy Office (Latin: Sanctum Officium), was the tribunal established jointly by the Venetian government and the Catholic...
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    the painting led to an investigation by the Tribunal of the Venetian Holy Inquisition. Veronese was called to answer for irreverence and indecorum,...
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  • Peruvian Inquisition (1570–1820) Portuguese Inquisition (1536–1821) Roman Inquisition (beginning 1542) Spanish Inquisition (1478–1834) Venetian Holy Inquisition...
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    was assured. He was sent to Venice as inquisitor general of the Venetian Holy Inquisition, but was so severe and conducted matters in such a high-handed...
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    renamed from a Last Supper to satisfy the objections of the Venetian Holy Inquisition, is the largest and perhaps the best known. They are all framed...
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  • plurality of worlds was one of the charges leveled against him by the Venetian Holy Inquisition, which trialed and executed him. The heliocentric model was further...
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    Venetian Holy Inquisition to explain why his Last Supper, a huge canvas for the refectory of a monastery, contained, in the words of the Inquisition:...
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    Paolo Veronese (category 16th-century Venetian people)
    painting—thus, on 18 July 1573, Veronese was summoned before the Venetian Holy Inquisition to explain the presence of what Church doctrine considered characters...
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  • pseudonym, Pompeo Uciglio, he was savagely executed in Toulouse. The Venetian Holy Inquisition sought to challenge irreligion during this time. Other irreligious...
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    war on 9 April. On 25 April he announced to the Venetian delegates at Graz, "I want no more Inquisition, no more Senate; I shall be an Attila to the state...
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    Venetian Albania Venetian Carnival Venetian Dalmatia Venetian Gothic architecture Venetian Ionian Islands Venetian nationalism Venetian navy Venetian...
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    ISBN 3-930893-16-9 Schmitt 1991:45. Grendler, Paul F. (1975). "The Roman Inquisition and the Venetian Press". The Journal of Modern History. 47 (1): 48–65. doi:10...
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    Jacobin revolutionaries within Venice, and the Venetian senate began quiet preparations for war. The Venetian armed forces were depleted and hardly a match...
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  • Francesco Calcagno (category Victims of the Inquisition)
    Brescia on 15 July 1550 after an investigation by the Holy Office of the Venetian Inquisition relating to the offenses of atheistic blasphemy and sodomy...
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  • dominated by a tyrannical Inquisition. In 1525, Venetian ambassador Contarini said that all people trembled before the Inquisition. Another ambassador, Tiepolo...
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    and institutionalization of both the Dominican Order and the Medieval Inquisition. The Dominicans promulgated the message of the Church and spread it by...
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    museum located at the former headquarters of the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in the neighbourhood of Barrios Altos, part of the historic...
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  • 1648, she became governess to the motherless children of Paolo Lion, a Venetian noble, and used her contacts within high society to open a series of women's...
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    Galileo affair (category Inquisition)
    Floating Bodies reprinted in 1635, he was informed by the Venetian Inquisitor that the Inquisition had forbidden further publication of any of Galileo's works...
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    himself to Venetian society by becoming an informer to the dreaded inquisition. His younger brother Paolo, married conventionally into the old Venetian aristocracy...
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  • Fulgenzio Manfredi (category People executed by the Roman Inquisition)
    of the Holy Office "ad respondendum de fide" (to answer for the faith), but did not attend. In a "Manifesto" written to the Roman Inquisition which had...
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  • visited the Holy Land. This crusade is described in Heimskringla by Icelandic historian Snorri Sturluson. Venetian Crusade. The Venetian Crusade (1122–1124)...
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  • Witchcraft in Italy (category Inquisition)
    these actions sparked a Holy Office inquiry, and the records of inquisitorial discussions with di Rossi were left in the Venetian Archives. A Priest from...
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    to be good Christians, is that your highness should institute the holy Inquisition; for there are many who live according to the law of Moses or the law...
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    Charles V (24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain from 1516 to 1556, and...
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    years after Bellarmine's death, Galileo was again called before the Inquisition in this matter. Galileo produced Bellarmine's certificate for his defense...
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    Converso (category Spanish Inquisition)
    converso "New Christians" were true to their new faith, the Holy Office of the Inquisition was established in Spain in 1478. The Catholic Monarchs of Spain...
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    Pope Paul IV (category Diplomats of the Holy See)
    with which he opposed (the inquisition itself had been first instituted by Pope Innocent III who first regulated inquisitional procedure in the 13th century)...
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    Filippo Mocenigo (category 16th-century Venetian people)
    Protestants. Thanks to the Venetian ambassador in Rome, Paolo Tiepolo, Filippo managed to avoid a formal trial before the Inquisition, but he had to renounce...
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  • after Charles decided to confiscate the Mendes fortune, and, after the Holy Inquisition began operating against Portuguese Marranos in 1546, moved to Antwerp...
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