ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Italian hearings, which involved few witnesses, but which were written down by the notaries in considerable detail, in Brindisi, throughout Apulia, the Abruzzi and the papal state, and in Florence. The hearing in Naples has left only very fragmentary information. The author has little concrete data on the hearing in Ravenna, but the author does know that about thirteen Templars were questioned. The council, summoned to pronounce on their guilt, absolved them all, stating that those who had confessed guilt had done so either through torture or fear of torture. One of the most difficult aspects of comparing one Templar trial with another is that the well-known list of accusations, published, among others, by Barber, Michelet and the author, can vary from one hearing to another. In Brindisi, the papal state and Florence, the same list of 127 allegations was used.
