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CHAPTER I - SICILY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2011

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The island of Sicily, in the fifteenth century, was a portion of the dominions of Aragon. Like the rest of the possessions of that crown, it had enjoyed the benefits of the old papal Inquisition under the conduct of the Dominicans, but, as elsewhere, towards the close of the Middle Ages, the institution had become nearly dormant, and at most was employed occasionally to wring money from the Jews. An effort to galvanize it, however, was made, in 1451, by the Inquisitor Fra Enrico Lugardi, who produced a fictitious decree, purporting to have been issued in 1224, by the Emperor Frederic II, granting to the inquisitors a third of the confiscations, together with yearly contributions from Jews and infidels; this was confirmed by King Alfonso of Naples, and again, in 1477, by Ferdinand and Isabella. When, in 1484, the Spanish Inquisition was extended to Aragon, Ferdinand did not at first seek to carry its blessings to his insular possessions. February 12, 1481, he had appointed Filippo de' Barbari, one of his confessors, as inquisitor of Sicily, Malta, Gozo and Pantelaria, who apparently did nothing to further the cause of the faith, for Sixtus IV, in letters of February 23, 1483, to Isabella, complained of the prevalence in the island of the same heresies that pervaded Spain; to repress these he had issued sundry bulls, which had proved inoperative in consequence of the opposition of the royal officials, to his no little grief.

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The Inquisition in the Spanish Dependencies
Sicily, Naples, Sardinia, Milan, the Canaries, Mexico, Peru, New Granada
, pp. 1 - 44
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1908

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  • SICILY
  • Henry Charles Lea
  • Book: The Inquisition in the Spanish Dependencies
  • Online publication: 05 July 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511709807.002
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  • SICILY
  • Henry Charles Lea
  • Book: The Inquisition in the Spanish Dependencies
  • Online publication: 05 July 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511709807.002
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  • SICILY
  • Henry Charles Lea
  • Book: The Inquisition in the Spanish Dependencies
  • Online publication: 05 July 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511709807.002
Available formats
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