Candido Amantini was what type of priest, able to cast out demons?
Exorcist In some religions, an exorcist is a person who is believed to be able to cast out the devil or other demons. A priest, a nun, a monk, a healer, a shaman or other specially prepared or instructed person can be an exorcist. An exorcist is a person who performs the ridding of demons or other supernatural beings who are alleged to have possessed a person, or (sometimes) a building or even an object.
Paolo Grillandi Paolo Grillandi (born c. 1490) was an Italian jurist, from Abruzzo, active as a papal judge in witch trials, from 1517. He was an influential observer of confessions. His book "Tractatus de hereticis et sortilegiis" (1536), based substantially on his judicial experience, became a standard text on witchcraft and demonology. Other related works are his "De Questionibus et tortura tractatus", "De relaxatione carceratorum", and the "De Lamiis" of Gianfrancesco Ponzinibio that was later printed with the "Tractatus de hereticis et sortilegiis". James Franklin writes