Note 142 — Chapter III · THE FRATICELLI.
Reading edition
Franz Ehrle, Archiv für Litt.-u. K. 1887, pp. 511-12.—Baluz et Mansi II. 279-80.—Nicholaus Minorita (Ibid. III. 208-13).
Curiously enough, in this John did exactly what his special antagonists, the Spirituals, had desired. Olivi had long before pointed out the scandal of an Order vowed to poverty litigating eagerly for property and using the transparent cover of papal procurators (Hist. Tribulat. ap. Archiv für Litt.-u. K. 1886, p. 298).