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 266 "^^^• quisitor Andrea di Aquapendente, to make Pr^damation that none of the converts of Giacomo di Buronzo should be P<^™ "^^ *«^^^ feet sales greater in amount than one florm, and that all sales wh ch had W made by them were void, for they had relapsed, we endeavoring to emigrate, and to dispose «f their property, which was legaUy confiscated. Louis XL, who stopped the per- eculn, as wf have seen, so unceremoniously in his own dommions, ft interest enough in the matter to extend protection over the unfortunates in hfs sister's territories and his word l-J po..r s«f. ficient to dampen the zeal of the duchess, who ^^^«,f ^°^J;f;^P;^- dent on him after the misfortunes of Charles the Bold Sixtus IV. .^s much scandalized by this. He had sent a special papal com- nlioner to speed the holy work, and he wrote pressingly to Luis assuming that the royal letters of P-f ^;- -J^'^f;; been urreptitiously obtained. He instructed the Bishop of Tui n to go if possible, in person to Louis and to make every effort to extfrmmate the ' heretics, who dared openly to propaga^ their doctrines and make converts, to the ruin of immortal souls The d : h of Louis, in 1483, deprived the Waldenses of t^^-r protector and persecution recommenced. An order of Duke Carlo L in 1484, to inquire into the violences committed by the people of A- Lgna, ViUaro, and Bobbio because their lords endeavored to sup- p CSS their her sies, shows how soon and how bitterly the strug- Se broke out afresh. The heretics scattered through the town S Piedmont were mercilessly dealt with by the -qu.s.tors bu^ those who inhabited the mountain valleys were safe, except from a saul by overwhelming forces. In April, 1487, Innocent VIIL r c"es how the inquisitor -general, Fra Blasio di Monreale, had gone to the infected district, and had vainly sought by earnest Shortations to induce the heretics to abandon their errors ; how heytad contemptuously defied his censures, had continued ope^ Iv to preach and make converts, had attacked his house, slam his Llrand pillaged his goods. ^I^/^aZ to dTcIS:! dentlv requisite, and Innocent appointed Alberto de Capitanei, Archdel^on of Cremona, as papal nuncio and — — r to Piedmont and Dauphine, with instructions to coerce the people fo receive Fra Blasio, and permit the free exercise «f J^- f ^; ^^^J to crush the heretics like venomous serpents. To this en.l A bertHvas empowered to preach a crusade with plenary mdul-