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Art . I . —History of the Progress and Suppression of the Reformation in Italy in the Sixteenth Century ; including a Sketch of the History of the Reformation in the Orisons . By Thomas M'Crie , D . D . Edinburgh , Blackwood . 1827 .
( Concluded from p . 34 . ) In 1269 , died at Ferrara , Armanno Pungilupo . His conduct had been so exemplary and christian-like , that the Bishop of Ferrara , who was and is considered a saint , endeavoured immediately to prove in an authentic manner that Pungilupo had gone straight to Paradise , had worked many miracles , and deserved to be canonized . But whilst the good bishop was administering oaths to witnesses and collecting evidence to this purpose , not
more than a year after Pungilupo ' s death , the Court of Rome set to work to prove that Pungilupo , so far from being a saint , was a heretic , and had gone quite in the other direction : and at Rome also witnesses were sworn and evidence collected to prove that such was the fact . The contest between the advocate of the saint and that of the devil ( who is considered to be defendant jure officii in these cases ) was a long and sharp onej but at length the latter prevailed . Although so late as the year 1295 , Ricobaldo called Pungilupo a
friend of God , yet , on the 22 d of March , 1301 , Pope Boniface VIII . ( for whom Dante was mistaken in hell by Pope Nicolas HI ., who occupied a place which he was anxious to leave to Boniface , who he knew was to succeed him in it ) condemned the memory of Pungilupo as that of a heretic ; his bones , which had been buried thirty-two years , were dug up and burned , and his ashes thrown to the wind . A diligent historian of Ferrara ,
on whom we may rely , since Muraton has praised him , has preserved the acts of this condemnation , and from him we learn , that Armanno was declared guilty of partaking the opinions of the Albigenses , Bagnolesi , and Concorrezesi . He has further taken the trouble * on that occasion , of giving a list of propositions in which these sectarians agreed , as well as of some in which they did not . It may not be uninteresting to our readers to see some of the propositions in which they agreed .
The Albigenses , Bagnolesi , and Concorrezesi , in Italy , then agreed , it appears , in the following propositions : " That Christ is not God ; that there is no resurrection of the body ; that baptism with water is of no service ; that a material church is of no use to pray in ; that the church cannot make constitutions ; that the anointment with holy oil is nothing ; that the
sacrament of the altar is nothing ; that there is no original sin ; that there is no purgatory ; that faith alone is not enough for our salvation ; that we ought not to confess ; that it is not lawful to swear , or to put any one to death , or to give any one up to justice ( if a heretic ) , because he may be converted . " *
The sect of the Apostolics , resembling this in many points , was flourishing at the time when Pope Boniface was condemning the memory of Pungilupo . John of Parma , General of the Franciscans , is said to have prophesied that the Gospel of Jesus Christ was to terminate in the year 1260 , when * Priscianus , apud Muratoli Antiq . Ital . Med . ^ E vi . Diss . GO .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1828, page 103, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2557/page/31/
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