In the said year 1305, in the territory of Novara in Lombardy, there was one Frate Dolcino, which was not a brother of any regular Order, but as it were a monk outside the Orders, and he rose up and led astray a great company of heretics, men and women of the country and of the mountains, of small account; and the said Fra Dolcino taught and preached that he was a true apostle of Christ, and that everything ought to be held lovingly in common, and women also were to be in common, and there was no sin in so using them. And many other foul articles of heresy he preached, and maintained that the Pope and cardinals and the other rulers of Holy Church did not observe their duty nor the evangelic life; and that he ought to be made Pope. And he, with a following of more than 3,000 men and women, abode in the mountains, living in common after the manner of beasts; and when they wanted victuals they took and robbed wherever they could find any; and thus he reigned for two years. At last those which followed the said dissolute life, becoming weary of it, his sect diminished much, and through want of victuals and by reason of the snow he was taken by the Navarese and burnt, with Margaret his companion, and with many other men and women which with him had been led astray. [Sidenote: 1306 A.D.] Sec. 85.--_How Pope Clement sent as legate into Italy Cardinal Napoleone of the Orsini, and how he was ill received._ Sec. 86.--_How the Florentines besieged and took the strong castle of Montaccianico and dismantled it, and caused Scarperia to be built._ Sec. 87.--_How the Florentines strengthened the Popolo, and chose the first executor of the Ordinances of Justice._ Sec. 88.--_Of the great war which was begun against the marquis of Ferrara, and how he died._ [Sidenote: Inf. xii. 112; xviii. 55-57. Purg. v. 73-78. xx. 79-81. De Vulg. El. I. 12: 38; II. 6: 42-44.] [Sidenote: 1306 A.D.]