Il potere come intercessione: i tentativi di tre donne nel processo per eresia a Fanino Fanini

Abstract

Fanino Fanini, baker in Faenza in the first half of the 16th Century, was one of the famous victims of Roman Inquisition; his story marks a crucial date for the diffusion of the Reformation in the Romagna Estense. Arrested in February 1549, he was processed for heresy and condemned to death. The sentence was executed eighteen months later, in August 1550. During this interval, Renée of France, Olympia Morata and Lavinia della Rovere repeatedly interceded in order to obtain pardon for him. Giunia Totaro, El poder como intercesión: La intervención de tres mujeres en el proceso por herejía a Fanino Fanini. This paper goes back over the events, paying particular attention to the historical and political circumstances of the Fanini case, to the mediating role of women and to their methods of intervention, evidence of which is contained in letters and archival documents.