>It might be worth trying Bernard Gui's De secta illorum qui se dicunt
>esse de ordine apostolum, which is printed with the Historia Fratris
>Dulcini, Rerum Italicarum Scriptores (Citta di Castello, 1907).
>tom izbicki
>
>
Yes, Tom, I should have mentioned it, but I was afraid that I was going
already too much into the details. Bernard Gui has preserved the only extant
bull which can count as a papal act initiating a crusade, and this bull is
directed to the inquisitors, not to the local bishops or other authorities.
In his account of the events -- which is *not* very well informed, because
once he confounds the "montes novarienses" with mountains in the diocese of
Vercelli, as most of Dante's early and modern commentators and even some
historians do -- he also mentions the inquisitors for the beginnings of the
crusade, together with the bishop of Vercelli ("post autem tandem
inquisitores heretice pravitatis in partibus Lombardie de ordine
Predicatorum cum episcopo vercellensi, cruce cum plena peccatorum
indulgentia predicata, congregaverunt magnum exercitium contra prefatum
Dulcinum heresiarcham"), which is already more than the _Historia_ admits;
but he does not mention any participation of inquisitors in Dolcino's last
process. He even writes about Dolcino's and Margherita's after their
capture: "fuitque facta debita executio iustic[i]e de eisdem per curiam
secularem". If this does not simply mean that *after* beeing sentenced they
were delivered to the secular authorities for execution (in death sentences
of the inquisition usually circumscribed as "relinquere/tradere brachio
saeculari", I have also found "brachio et iuditio saeculari"), it would
confirm the account of the _Historia_ that they were *not* sentenced by an
inquisitor. But I believe (maybe only because it suits me better) that he
does refer only to the execution, not to the preceeding process. In any case
it remains strange that he does not speak of an inquisitor at this point,
because in his account of Segarelli's death (an account transmitted in two
textual variants) he had named the inquisitor and acknowledged his merits at
some lenght. Maybe he simply did not know who was the inquisitor who
sentenced Dolcino, or maybe there was no such inquisitor. I would like to
know, and would like the first possibility more.
Otfried
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