Note 130 — Chapter II · GUGLIELMA AND DOLCINO.
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Mariotti (A. Galenga), Frà Dolcino and his Times, London, 1853, pp. 287-88.—Regest. Clement. PP. V. T. II. pp. 79-82, 88 (Ed. Benedictina, Romæ, 1886).—Mosheims Ketzergeschichte I. 395.—Ughelli, Italia Sacra, Ed. 1652, IV. 1104-8.—Hist. Dulcin. (Muratori IX. 436, 440).—Benv. da Imola (Muratori Antiq. III. 460).—Bernard. Guidon. Vit. Clement. PP. V. (Muratori III. I. 674).—Bescapè, loc. cit.
The punishment inflicted on Dolcino and Longino was not exceptional. By a Milanese statute of 1393 all secret attempts upon the life of any member of a family with whom the criminal lived were subject to a penalty precisely the same in all details, except that it ended by attaching the offender to a wheel and leaving him to perish in prolonged agony.—Antiqua Ducum Mediolani Decreta, p. 187 (Mediolani, 1654).