[44] Cantù, Eretici d’Italia, I. 129.—Comba, La Riforma in Italia, I. 314.
A specimen of Jacopone’s attacks on Boniface will show the temper of the times—
| “Ponesti la tua lingua Contra religione A dir blasfemia Senza niun cagione. | O pessima avarizia Sete induplicata, Bever tanta pecunia E non esser saziata!” (Comba, op. cit. 312.) |
There is doubtless foundation for the story related by Savonarola in a sermon, that Jacopone was once brought into the consistory of cardinals and requested to preach, when he solemnly repeated thrice, “I wonder that in consequence of your sins the earth does not open and swallow you.”—Villari, Frà Savonarola, II. Ed. T. II. p. 3.
[45] Hist. Tribulat. (loc. cit. pp. 311-13).
[46] Wadding. ann. 1302, No. 1-3, 7; ann. 1310, No. 9.—Franz Ehrle (Archiv für Litt-u. K. 1886, p. 385).
[47] Wadding, ann. 1278, No. 27-8.—Franz Ehrle, Archiv f. L. u. K. 1887, pp. 505-11, 528-9.
When Geronimo d’Ascoli attained the papacy he was urged to prosecute Olivi, but refused, expressing the highest consideration for his talents and piety, and declaring that his rebuke had been merely intended as a warning (Hist. Trib. loc. cit. 1886, p. 289).
[48] Wadding, ann. 1282, No. 2; ann. 1283, No. 1; ann. 1285, No. 5; ann. 1290, No. 11; ann. 1292, No. 13; ann. 1297, No. 33-4.—Chron. Glassberger ann. 1283.—Hist. Tribulat. (loc. cit. pp. 294-5).—Franz Ehrle, Archiv, 1886, pp. 383, 389; 1887, pp. 417-27, 429, 433, 438, 534.—Raym. de Fronciacho (Archiv, 1887, p. 15).
Olivi’s death is commonly assigned to 1297, but the Transitus Sancti Patris, which was one of the books most in vogue among his disciples, states that it occurred on Friday, March 14, 1297 (Bernard. Guidon. Practica P. v.); Friday fell on March 14 in 1298, and the common habit of commencing the year with Easter explains the substitution of 1297 for 1298.