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Chapter One. Inquisitors and Inquisitorial Districts 1 1. Dominican Administrative Divisions 1 2. Medieval Dominican Inquisitors 3 3. Renaissance Rebolstering 7 4. The Appointment of Inquisitors in the Province of St. Peter Martyr and the Province of St. Dominic 10 5. The Appointment of Inquisitors in the Congregation of Lombardy 12 6. Papal Confirmation of Inquisitorial Appointments and Extraordinary Interventions 16 7. Tenure and Dismissal of Inquisitors 17 8. Inquisitorial Districts 20 9. Inquisitorial Vicars 27 10. Lay Auxiliaries 30 11. Buildings, Archives, Handbooks 31 12. The Secular Arm 36 13. The Inquisitor's Profile 38 14. Renaissance Inquisitors as Men of the Renaissance 45

Chapter Two. Conventuals and Observants 49 1. Unreformed and Reformed Dominicans 49 2. Graziadio Crotti da Cremona, Inquisitor of Pavia, Cremona and Piacenza 1481-1483, Inquisitor of Milan 1497-1511, 1513-1515 52. 3 Maffeo da Parma, Inquisitor of Parma and Reggio 1505-1507 60 4. Antonio da Casale, Inquisitor of Bergamo 1501-1508, Inquisitor of Parma and Reggio 1508-1513, Inquisitor of Como 1513-1515 66  5. Girolamo Armellini da Faenza, Inquisitor of Parma and Reggio 1518-1526, Inquisitor of Mantua 1531-1540 68 6. Giorgio Cacatossici da Casale, Inquisitor of Cremona and Piacenza 1502-1511, Inquisitor of Brescia, Crema and Cremona 1511-1512, Inquisitor of Bergamo, Brescia, Crema and Cremona 1512?1515 72

Chapter Three. Administrators, Courtiers and Academics 79 1. Desultory Inquisitors 79 2. Michele Madei da Asti, Inquisitor of Casale and Trino 1488-1490, Inquisitor of Asti 1494?1500 80 3. Giovanni Rafanelli da Ferrara, Inquisitor of Ferrara and Modena 1481-1514 90 4. Giovanni Cagnazzo da Taggia, Inquisitor of Bologna 1494-1513 109

Chapter Four. Surveillants of Minorities 119 1. Freethinkers and Dissenters 119 2. The Waldensians 120 3. Biagio Berra da Mondovi, Inquisitor of Mondovi 1471-1513 122 4. Angelo Rizzardi da Savigliano, Inquisitor of Monferrato 1505-1509, Inquisitor of Saluzzo 1509-1510 129 5. Jews and Judaizers 137 6. Paolo Moneglia da Genova, Inquisitor of the March of Genoa 1494-1497 140

Chapter Five. Witch-Hunters 149 1. The Inquisitors' Witches 149 2. Niccolo Constantini da Biella, Inquisitor of Vercelli, Ivrea, Novara and Como ca. 1460-1483 155 3. Lorenzo Soleri da Sant' Agata, Inquisitor of Vercelli, Ivrea, Novara and Como 1483-1505 163 4. Antonio Pezzotelli da Brescia, Inquisitor of Brescia 1479-1498 174 5. Domenico Pirri da Gargnano, Inquisitor of Bologna 1485-1490, Inquisitor of Mantua 1490-1520 181 6. Girolamo da Lodi, Inquisitor of Brescia 1518-1526 186 7. Modesto Scrofa da Vicenza, Inquisitor of Parma and Reggio 1519, Inquisitor of Como ca. 1520-1530 193  VII 8. Witch-Trials and Witch-Hunts 195 9. The Issue of Gender 198 10. Witch-Hunting and Dominican Reform 200 11. Questioning Motives 203 12. Was There a Sect of the Witches?

204 Epilogue

209 Appendices 1. Biographical Register of Dominican Inquisitors in Northern Italy, 1474-1527 213 2. Calendar of Known Trials for Witchcraft Conducted by Dominican Inquisitors in Northern Italy, 1450-1527 253

Bibliography 259

Index of Names 277

Sulla persecuzione dei valdesi, pp. 119-137 (inquisitori: Biagio Berra e Angelo Rizzardi)