What is "dolcino"

Usage examples of "dolcino".

And once more I heard Fra Dolcino and the Pseudo Apostles mentioned, and once more in a circumspect tone, with almost a hint of terror.

This Dolcino was a priest’s bastard, living in the Novara diocese, this part of Italy, a bit farther north.

And, furthermore, listen to me: it is enough to know what Fra Dolcino did afterward to call him a wicked man.

At that point, the Bishop of Trent drove him from the diocese, but by then Dolcino had gathered more than a thousand followers, and he began a long march, which took him back to the area where he was born.

When he reached the Novara region, Dolcino found a situa­tion favorable to his revolt, cause the vassals governing the town of Gattinara in the name of the Bishop of Vercelli had been driven out by the populace, who then welcomed Dolcino’s outlaws as their worthy allies.

Dolcino and his followers, who were now three thousand strong, camped on a hill near Novara known as Bald Mountain, and they built hovels and fortifications, and Dolcino ruled over that whole throng of men and women, who lived in the most shameful promiscuity.

He said and he wrote that their ideal was poverty and they were not bound by any vow of exter­nal obedience, and that he, Dolcino, had been sent by God to break the seals of the prophecies and to under­stand the writings of the Old and the New Testaments.

Because, a few months later, when the Bavarian established his own order in Rome, Marsilius and other Minorites did to religious who were faithful to the Pope exactly what Dolcino had asked to have done.

But I was beginning to wonder, especially after that afternoon’s conversation with William, if it were possi­ble for the simple people who followed Dolcino to distinguish between the promises of the Spirituals and Dolcino’s enactment of them.

Now I know this is the case and I know why Dolcino was in error: the order of things must not be transformed, even if we must fervently hope for its transformation.

In a second letter, to the year 1303, Dolcino appointed himself supreme head of the Apostolic congregation, and named as his lieuten­ants the perfidious Margaret—a woman—and Longinus of Bergamo, Frederick of Novara, Albert Carentinus, and Walderic of Brescia.

For Dolcino the fourth Pope was still unknown, and he was to be the Sainted Pope, the Angelic Pope of whom the abbot Joachim spoke.

He would be chosen by God, and then Dolcino and all his people (who at this point were already four thousand) would receive together the grace of the Holy Spirit, and it would renew the church until the end of the world.

And it was right, because in his letters at this point Dolcino sus­tained theories that could not be reconciled with orthodoxy.

There were terrible massacres, but in the end the rebels were forced to surrender, Dolcino and his people were captured, and they rightly ended up on the pyre.