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Case #9

carrying weapons without a license, violating sentence of banishment, armed robbery, abduction

Case Description

That Giambattista Malipiero, son of the late Ser Gian Paolo, whose grandfather was Ser Giovanni 'da cavallo', son of Orsetto [...], is Accused, that being sought for committing his own crimes, for which he is currently banished, he has gone about this city on recent days, at night, notwithstanding the said ban, armed with a German harquebus, in the company of other Priests*, with violent methods stealing goods and money from various shops, making a criminal lifestyle of it. The said Malipiero also, in recent days, abducted by force, at night, a serving girl from above a ballroom on the Fondamenta delle Zogie by presenting a pistol to her person, then intending to do her an outrage.

Date & Time

Date
Jan. 1, 1600

Location

Address
Venice - (canal)
City
Venice
Location Description
fondamenta della grue

People Involved

Victim(s)

  • serving girl

Perpetrator(s)

  • Giambattista Malpiero

Crime Details

Weapon
German arquebus
Fatality
No

Legal Information

Court
Avogaria
Trial Phase
summons
Convicted
No
Pardoned
No
Sentence Enforced
No
Arbitration
No

Sources

Archival Location
ASV, X, Criminali, F 42