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£ fr&fco ]* he ^ whom fee could reconcile with Christianity ; in doing which hfc displayed £ rf * afc ingenuity-. Dattte ' fctime , hbwfcveVj was not the fit season for hiding any open plan of tfgfcftft&i'dft in ftaty . The atfcrses of spiritual power to obtain temporal ends aftd Xd a&vancetbe afnbftious views of that ** old , cursed , insatiable she-wolf , "
{ as Dante calfs the Ootirt of Rome , ) were th £ n brought to their highest £ > fteh , and political heresy to her interests wag as dangerous as reli g ious . The Venetians having seteed Ferrari in 1309 , Clement V . excommunicated them , declared them infaftmite to the fourth generation , Ordered their merchftnoljse to be confiscated in all the potts Gf the world , deprived them of th& right of inheriting or of making a will , either in a foreign or in their own "coiiVtf rt , authorized any one to seiie them and make them slaves , and
ex-cited all Christian nations to the lawful , nay , meritorious , act of making w&f upon them , and of destroying them by means even of treachery . And this bii ! l foimd executors amongst all the Christian powers . A year before Dahte ^ s death , in 1320 , and exactly one hundred years a&er the first cori * Mitutixm of Frederic against the heretics , the Inquisition was most merei * - lessly and infamously exercised against the partisans of the empire , in Milan and dtlie * cities in any wise disaffected , and continued to be so for several
year $ . Yet , in 1369 , an insult was offered in Milan to tfee ambassadors or legates of the pope , which perhaps \ vould have been spared when that city was Ml of heretics . In that year the pope excommunicated Visconti , Duke of Milan , and sent a cardinal and an abbot to deliver to him the bull of excommunication . The legates found Visconti in his capital , delivered faith the bull , and were apparently well feceivedi When they were about to Aep&tt he offered to accompany them a little way , attended by many of his
followers . On reaching the bridge of the NavigMo , the duke stopped and asked ^ hem sternly , whether they felt more inclined to eat or to drink ; they anfcfreted , that they wanted neither : but beitig ^ pressed , they added , that where Vhere was & > much drink to be got , they felt move mditied to eat . * WeK , t ! i ^ n , ' '&&& the duke , '" here is the l 7 u ) l of excommtfriicmion ; you shalleat k t > e 1 ft > re yota 'featve this brrdge . ' It vfps in vain the cardinal remonstrated arid ihTeatdnea h \ tn wirtfh the vengeance of God . The ambassadors were obliged to ^ a ? t imTftetaiirtely on the Sp 6 t the parchmeTif ! , ribbo ' ns , leaden Seals and all . IVteh they tod 'fenished Ifheir faatd Tepa ^ t they were allowed to < iepa ( rt ^
PeiraYCh a « rid Boccaccio Contributed gredtly to the revival of Platonic phifOfc&plhyi l ^ th eif' 6 f t ^ em was ^ ever a profound seholair in G ^ reek , yet frotb ^ leir days A ^ ljftaie ' begah > in nis tttrn to loose ground before hifc rival . fn Wie iYext c ^ ft ( Mry Platonis ^ m ^ vaS wery where tin Vogue throughout Italy , ' anti phJ ^ tfphy , % i vat ions % ays , becahte the source of diso&s ^ idns and o | 4 ^ tribt ^ wtftfh agft ^ e ^ l the minds bf ^> e ft afticttis , attd prepared them for the ^ te in Vh Pch We ( Jterm&n r forWaticJh f 6 un d them * 5 Phe Aristotelians
becanje comparatively insignificant , but they still adhered to their prtncipl ^ S . ¥ b tn ^ b ^* 6 , ^ ttutfst fa ^ non ^ oF ' ttem ' aH , having d ^ tii ^ d the ittVrtto ' rt&Hty of itie m ^ fi lirt Wfe \ f&tiitie % e Ittitriomlitttte Attirkte , foad no feelter defence ^ 'ttfteY , t'ha'h ^ flt he 'me ^^ t it as AYtettffle ^ d | jlrtWo ^ , * i 6 t * fis t > Wn ; a very " eVifsive b !^ a , % is * nfay'e ^ tty be » sfefch . H « d it-h ^ t % ^ ett : fbt Cardinal Bembo ' B mi h Easi
^ Vbte ^ n , 'jf / eVhaJis the in ^ ftflSft ors wbiild - ^ e &b ly admitted it , A edm 1 ng ftottt a hkn w % b wtts ^ l rfeafdy oTbnbxfaNis for haviffg h eld up Christfen % t 6 ri < Jittule . ^ fhyre ^ wds a riidtnetit % h ^ n it ajipe ^ flred prdbdl ^ thttt thti l supet § ti ^ ons of StoWe ' wotildfte The ftplrtt of Ihe tifmes
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106 Revietif . M' ' - ^ Crfes lidian Reformation *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1828, page 106, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2557/page/34/
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