Persecution of the Waldenses of Piedmont 259 Decline of the Lombard Inquisition 269 Venice.--Subjection of Inquisition to the State 273 Tuscany.--Increasing Insubordination.--Case of Piero di Aquila 275 Continued Troubles in Florence 280 Tommasino da Foligno 281 Decline of Inquisition in Central Italy 282 The Two Sicilies.--Inquisition Subordinate to the State 284 CHAPTER V.--THE SLAVIC CATHARI. Efforts of Innocent III. and Honorius III. East of the Adriatic 290 The Mendicant Orders Undertake the Task 293 Bloody Crusades from Hungary 294 Revival of Catharism 298 Endeavors of Boniface VIII. and John XXII. 299 Fruitlessness of the Work 301 Reign of Stephen Tvrtko 303 Catharism the State Religion 305 Advance of the Turks 306 Confusion Aggravated by Persecution 307 The Cathari Aid the Turkish Conquest 313 Disappearance of Catharism 314 CHAPTER VI.--GERMANY. Persecution of Strassburg Waldenses in 1212 316 Spread of Waldensianism in Germany 318 Mystic Pantheism.--The Amaurians and Ortlibenses 319 Brethren of the Free Spirit or Beghards.--Luciferans 323 Conrad of Marburg.--His Character and Career 325 Gregory XI. Vainly Stimulates him to Persecution 329 Gregory Commissions the Dominicans as Inquisitors 333 The Luciferan Heresy 334 Conrad’s Methods and Massacres 336 Antagonism of the Prelates 338 Assembly of Mainz.--Conrad’s Defeat and Murder 340 Persecution Ceases.--The German Church Antagonistic to Rome 342 The Reaction Keeps the Inquisition out of Germany 346 Waldenses and Inquisition in Passau 347 Growth of Heresy.--Virtual Toleration 348 The Beguines, Beghards, and Lollards 350 The Brethren of the Free Spirit 354 Tendency to Mysticism.--Master Eckart 358 John of Rysbroek, Gerard Groot, and the Brethren of the Common Life 360