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Inquisizione - Vicenza

License for appointment as general inquisitor, 1775

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Parchment license, 533 x 405 mm., With paper seal applied at the bottom, embossed, and signatures of the various members of the Holy Office: Carlo Rezzonico, Vincenzo Maria Malvezzi, Giuseppe Maria Castelli, Gian Carlo Boschi, Carlo Pallavicini, Luigi Maria Torrigiani, folded and applied within marbled cardboard.

Specialist Notes

License for appointment as general inquisitor for the city of Vicenza and countryside in favor of the Dominican Ercole Pio Pavoni da Brescia, professor of Sacred Theology. Among the various tasks, he is reminded, among other things, of the duty to imprison and torture suspects of heresy and magical arts, as well as of all heretical pravity. & Nbsp;