The Inquisitor in the Hat Shop by Federico Barbierato

Author:Federico Barbierato [Barbierato, Federico]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781138117211
Google: ucIDtAEACAAJ
Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2017-01-15T16:13:16+00:00

Chapter 4

The Danger from Within

Sighing, Quietism and mysticism adrift

When the Venetian Inquisitor had to deal with the doctrine of ‘susti’ (sighs)1 in November 1697, he must have been left feeling somewhat perplexed. It had no immediate connections to any other known theory, but bore a strong resemblance to Quietism.2 In the climate of general interest in the phenomenon, it was better not to underestimate anything and it was in this way that he learnt about Don Giovan Battista Ruggeri and his way of thinking.3

Don Gasparo Moro, who reported to the Sant’Uffizio on 26 November 1697, had met Ruggeri more than a month before in the Nunciature on the morning of 16 October. Moro was an ecclesiastical lawyer and Ruggeri had engaged him to draw up a memorial to absolve him from the excommunication he had received after punching the subdeacon of San Felice or, as the lawyer put it, ‘because of a blow with a fist inspired by the devil that he gave to reverend father Michiel Moro, head subdeacon at San Felice in the public sacristy of this church’. They went together to see Don Michiel to conclude the peace process but could not find him, and as time was pressing they decided to meet again after lunch. On this occasion they had quite an unusual conversation. Moro noticed that Ruggeri:

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