TOMMASO CRUDELI   (1703-1745)

Short Chronology

1703, 21th december: Tommaso Baldassarre Crudeli was born at Poppi (Arezzo, Tuscany);
1726: law degree in Pisa;
1733: fifth italian adept of the Masonic lodge in Florence (the ever first in Italy, grounded by English);
1739, 9th may: arrested in Florence by the Holy Inquisition, imprisoned for 16 months in S.Croce Church and tortured;
1741, april: he was released from the prison and sentenced to house arrest in Poppi;
1745, 27th march: he died in Poppi and was buried in a common grave in S.Fedele Abbey;
1747, 15th october: his literary works were put on the Index and burned in Piazza della Signoria in Florence.