Two meteorite impacts that took place in Italy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are reported in many historical and modern sources. These were the Crema Bolide of 1511, which was described by many witnesses, and the fall in Milan which probably occurred between 1633 and 1664. Many references report that in both incidents a monk was hit and killed by the respective meteorite. Due to the lack of solid evidence and to the anecdotal nature of the accounts, both of these incidents are considered doubtful. In this paper I review what is known about these events, and conclude that the older incident is likely to have been misreported by Alexander von Humboldt in 1845 and by many other authors thereafter.
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