L’Inquisizione, gli indizi, le prove

This essay focuses on some characteristics of the inquisitorial trial, comparing it with the accusatory procedure. The inquisitorial trial, which resulted in almost inevitable torture of the accused, is certainly in our eyes an injustice and a violation of the legal rights that are essential for us in a proper procedure. However, the care with which the evidence was produced and examined by the institutions that adopted the inquisitorial procedure deserves to be emphasized, especially for the consequences it had in certain types of imaginary crime such as witchcraft