CHAPTER IV.--POLITICAL HERESY UTILIZED BY THE CHURCH.

Denial of Papal Claims Pronounced Heresy 181

The Stedingers.--Tithes Enforced by Crusades 182

Crusades to Support Italian Interests of Papacy 189

Importance of Inquisition as a Political Agency 190

Advantage of the Charge of Heresy 191

Manfred of Naples.--The Colonnas.--Ferrara 193

John XXII. and the Visconti 196

Cola di Rienzo.--The Maffredi 203

Use of Inquisition in the Great Schism 204

Case of Thomas Connecte 208

Girolamo Savonarola 209