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Giovanni Battista Bugatti (1779–1869) was the official executioner for the Papal States from 1796 to 1864. He was the longest-serving executioner in the States and was nicknamed Mastro Titta , a Roman corruption of maestro di giustizia , or master of justice . [1]
Dec 20, 2021 · The beheading of Gaetano Tognetti and Giuseppe Monti, guilty of a bombing at the Serristori barracks of the papal Zouaves, was carried out by Vincenzo Balducci, aide and then substitute of the famous Mastro Titta, the nickname of Giovanni Battista Bugatti, the “executioner of Rome”.
The nickname given to Bugatti was then also extended to his successors, in some lands that were part of the Papal State, but in Rome in particular, the term 'Mastro Titta' is synonymous with executioner.
- March 6, 1779
Apr 14, 2023 · Apr 14, 2023. After sixty-eight years as the official executioner for the Papal States, the man nicknamed Mastro Titta hung up his cloak and ax. He was a man responsible for at least 514 executions. He was a man still executing people while the United States fought its Civil War. His name was Giovanni Bugatti.
From 1796 to 1864, only one man was in charge for the rather frequent executions in Rome: Giovanni Battista Bugatti, whose nickname Mastro Titta ("Master Titta"), became legendary: during his 70-year long activity, he performed 516 executions, or justices, as they used to be called. 'Mastro Titta' became the local synonym for 'executioner ...
Mar 6, 2020 · Bugatti, who became known by the nickname Mastro Titta - a corruption of the Italian maestro di giustizia - master of justice - in Roman dialect, carried out 516 executions in his 68-year career. He was the longest-serving executioner in the history of the Papal States.
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The man who performed virtually all of those executions was, when the guillotine arrived, already a veteran at killing under the pope’s aegis. Giovanni Battista Bugatti, nicknamed “Mastro Titta” by the Romans, had been carrying out papal death sentences since 1796.
