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Benandanti Documentary Timeline

Date the case, the record, the interpretation and the scholarly publication separately. Dates mark documented procedural or bibliographic events, not proof of supernatural activity.

Timeline scope: selected documented milestones, not an exhaustive chronology of all trials.

The Gasparutto report

Bartolomeo Sgabarizza relayed information about Paolo Gasparutto in Cividale. The transcript is a mediated account; the report and any reported spiritual events are distinct.

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Renewed interrogations

The Gasparutto–Moduco proceedings resumed after an earlier pause. Published translations place renewed questioning in 1580.

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Sentences in the cited proceedings

The translated case appendix identifies the conclusion and sentences of the Gasparutto and Moduco proceedings in November 1581.

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The later therapeutic record

Seventeenth-century records, treated centrally by Nardon, complicate a single linear transformation narrative.

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Ginzburg’s Italian study

Publication of I benandanti establishes a formative scholarly reconstruction of these records.

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Nardon’s reassessment

A University of Trieste volume highlights the continuing healing and anti-witchcraft roles and disputes the extent of transformation.

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English edition with new preface

The Johns Hopkins Press edition situates the work for a new readership.

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Updated edition

The Johns Hopkins edition published September 8, 2026 includes new retrospective material.

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