Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Nuns, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition
- Chapter 1 Female Religious, Claustration, and Santa Chiara of Carpi
- Chapter 2 The Outbreak and Maleficia
- Chapter 3 The Confessor and Love Magic
- Chapter 4 The Exorcists and the Demons
- Chapter 5 Sisters Dealta and Ippolita under Attack
- Chapter 6 Bellacappa's Defense
- Chapter 7 The Waning of the Possessions
- Conclusion
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
Appendix B
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Nuns, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition
- Chapter 1 Female Religious, Claustration, and Santa Chiara of Carpi
- Chapter 2 The Outbreak and Maleficia
- Chapter 3 The Confessor and Love Magic
- Chapter 4 The Exorcists and the Demons
- Chapter 5 Sisters Dealta and Ippolita under Attack
- Chapter 6 Bellacappa's Defense
- Chapter 7 The Waning of the Possessions
- Conclusion
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Interrogation of witnesses by Fiscal Orazio Giudici for the Inquisition of Modena in 1638 (all are Clarisses unless otherwise noted at their first appearance):
19 April: Claudia Cabassi
20 April: Claudia Cabassi, Maria Calefi
21 April: Maria Calefi
27 April: Alsuinda Malaspina
28 April: Alsuinda Malaspina
1 May: Giovan Battista Bignardi (confessor), Angelica Rocchi; perquisition of personal effects of Dealta Martinelli (incarcerated since 25 April)
5 May: Orsina Cipolla (lay sister), Dorotea Serafini Cabassi
6 May: Caterina Maria Poggi, Cassandra Felice Poggi, Clara Vittoria Massi
7 May: Clara Vittoria Massi
8 May: Geltruda Francesca Contessini, Margherita Felice Castagnini, Maria Calefi, Anna Caterina Zuccari
10 May: Claudia Cabassi, Grazia Lupagnini
12 May: Grazia Lupagnini, Ludovica Speroni, Beatrice Bendidio
14 May: Beatrice Bendidio
15 May: Silvia Montalti, Lucidaria Bellentani, Obizza Foschieri
16 May: Bradamante Puzzuoli, Leonora Brusati, Portia Muzzi
18 May: Giacinta Alessandrini, Portia Muzzi
19 May: Giacinta Alessandrini, Silveria Chechi, Gregorio Montaguti (exorcist)
20 May: Silveria Chechi, Caterina Maria Poggi, Olimpia Corradi
21 May: Silveria Chechi
22 May: Clarice Coccapani, Marcella Alessandrini
23 May: Paola Coccapani, Dianira Bergamaschi
24 May: Faustina Comì, Colomba Ciarlini
25 May: Chiara Grillenzoni, Leonora Fontana, Feliciana Grillenzoni, Alessandra Corradi, Florida Grillenzoni, Angelica Rocchi, Arcangela Donelli, Prudenzia Federici
27 May: Emerenziana Duosi
28 May: Prudenzia Federici, Emerenziana Duosi
29 May: Clelia Coccapani
30 May: Flavia Coccapani
31 May: Teodora Pattoni
1 June: Aurelia Bendidio, Angelica Rocchi, Beatrice Bendidio
4 June: Cherubina Giudici, Doralice Giudici, Fulvia Codebò
19 June: Orsina Cipolla
22 June: Margherita Felice Castagnini
23 June: Caterina Poletti (a laywoman who oversees the exterior side of the turntables)
25 June: Alfonso Cabassi (a young man studying for the priesthood who assists in the Mass at Santa Chiara)
26 June: Anna Caterina Zuccari
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- The Scourge of DemonsPossession, Lust, and Witchcraft in a Seventeenth-Century Italian Convent, pp. 216 - 218Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2009