The History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 6
The History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 6
Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794
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xxv. c 86, p. 819.) Had the tribune taught, that Christ was raooeeded bv the Holy Ghost, that the tyran- ny of the pope would be aboUshed, he might haye been conticted of heresy and treason, without offendhig the Roman people.* • So far from haying magnified these visions, PoUistore is more than eonfirmed by the documents published by Papencordt. The adoption of all the wild doctrines of the Fratricelli, the Spiritaab, in whieh, for the time St least, Bienzi appears to have been in earnest : hi...s magnificent offiwt te ihe emperor, and the whole history of his life, from his first escape from Borne to his imprisonment at ATignon, are unong the most curious ehap- 1KB of his erentlu] lito. — M. 18i?. ^^ Digitized byGoogk JUL' OV THE ROMAK BMPniB. 491 pijson he was chained hy the leg ; and four cardinals were named to inquire into the crimes of heresy and rebellion. But his trial and condemnation would have involved some questions, which it was more prudent to leave under the veil of mystery : the temporal supremacy of the popes ; the duty of residence ; the civil and ecclesiastical privileges of the clergy and people of Rome.
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