Career
Calcagno, a twenty-two-year-old Franciscan friar from Brescia, was interrogated in Brescia on 15 July 1550 and executed in Venice on 23 December 1550, after an investigation by the Holy Office of the Venetian Inquisition relating to the offenses of atheistic blasphemy and sodomy. A witness familiar with Calcagno testified that the Franciscan slept with a boy almost every night, believed that Jesus engaged in sodomy with Saint John, and denied the existence of God and Paradise, as well as the immortality of the human soul.