[115] Salimbene, pp. 117, 371.—Mag. Bull. Rom. I. 158.—At the same time Honorius approved the Orders of the Carmelites and of St. William of the Desert (Raynald. ann. 1286, No. 36, 37).
[116] Mag. Bull. Rom. I. 158.—Chron. Parmens. ann. 1294 (Muratori S. R. I. IX. 826).—Hist. Tribulat. (Archiv für Litt.-u. Kirchengeschichte, 1886, p. 130).—Addit. ad Hist. Frat. Dulcini (Muratori IX. 450).
[117] Hist. Tribulat. (ubi sup.).—Ubertini Responsio (Archiv f. L. u. K. 1887, p. 51).
[118] Salimbene, pp. 113, 117, 121.—Lib. Sententt. Inq. Tolos. pp. 360-1.—Muratori S. R. I. IX. 455-7.—Bern. Guidon. Practica P. v.—Eymeric. P. II. Q. 11.
The test of continence was regarded with horror by the inquisitors, and yet when practised by St. Aldhelm it was considered as proof of supereminent sanctity (Girald. Cambrens. Gemm. Eccles. Dist. II. c. XV.). The coincidence, in fact, is remarkable between the perilous follies of the Apostles and those of the Christian zealots of the third century, as described and condemned by Cyprian (Epist. IV. ad Pompon.).
[119] Muratori IX. 449-53.—Guill. Nangiac. Contin. ann. 1306.—R. Fran. Pipini Chron. cap. XV. (Muratori, IX. 599).—Cf. Lib. Sententt. Inq. Tolos. p. 360.—Pelayo, Heterodoxos Españoles, I. 720.
[120] Hist. Tribulat. (ubi sup.).
Or dí a Frà Dolcin dunque che s’ armi,
Tu che forse vedrai il sole in breve,
S’ egli non vuol quì tosto seguitarmi;
Sì di vivanda, che stretta di neve
Non rechi la vittoria al Noarese,
Ch’ altrimenti acquistar non saria lieve.—INFERNO, XXVIII.
[121] Benvenuto da Imola (Muratori Antiq. III. 457-9).—Bescapè, La Novara Sacra, Novara, 1878, p. 157.—Baggiolini, Dolcino e i Patarini, Novara, 1838, pp. 35-6.—Hist. Dulcin. Hæresiarch. (Muratori. S. R. I. IX. 436-7).—Addit. ad Hist. (Ibid. 457, 460).
[122] Corio, Hist. Milanesi, ann. 1307.—Beuv. da Imola, loc. cit.—Additamentum (Muratori IX. 454-55, 459).—Baggiolini, pp. 36-7.