256 I"^^^^- sion shows that it was numerous in the vicinage, and that it com-
- i^ed "embers of many noble families-the ^^tr^^ ««^^,
Petiti Narro, and ancestors of Balbi and Cavour. Although m Ttalv as in France, the name of Waldenses had become applicable SherTtils, and'they were — only ^^-igna^^^^^^^^^^ they retained the moderated dualism of the Lombard Cathar. Sa tan fell from heaven, created the visible universe, and will finally rlrn to Xry. Th law of Moses was dictated by him, and Moses w :Th eg'reatest of sinners. Human souls are fallen demons, who transmigrate into other human bodies, or -^« ^J-;^^;^ J; until released by death-bed eon.oU^nentam. The parity ot the faith was maintained by occasional intercourse with its headquar ters in Bosnia. Giacomo Bech was converted by a Slavonian Xionary in conjunction with Jocerino de' Balbi and Piero Pa- " and tke latter gave him ten florins and sent him to Bosnia to perfect himself in the doctrines, though he was compelled by U fortune at sea to return without accomphshing his pilgrimage, ^rty V ars before one of the Balbi had gone thither for the same Purpose u 1360 a Narro and a Benso, Piero Patrizi himself m ?3 nand Berardo Eascherio in 1380. Evidently the httle com^ mJnlty of Chieri maintained active relations with he heads of r Clmrch In 1370 Bech had fallen into the hands of the m- nulaor Fra Tommaso da Casacho, had been forced to confess, and TarW relea^sed after abjuration in reward for his betraying his "pTSomo's labors had been already rewarded by the dis- covlrv of another sect of Cathari in the vaUeys to the west and twpi of Turin Their heresiarch was Martino del Prete,
- te comllTty of Chieri had vainly endeavored to win them
and the comm ^ ^ ^^^^i^ had, in November, 1387, ZZ^TLv^^^SfZld named Antonio Galosna, who passed fo a Franciscan Tertiary. The Inquisition in those parts was Ireiy dTpendent upon the secular authorities, and the Count of f .J Amadeo VII was not disposed to second it with zeal, re 'otrnrat'^^Jst denied, AntLio succeeded in having hnn tortured till he promised to tell everything if released from tort ure, and accordingly^h^nex^dayhem^^ , but Gio « Archivio Storico Italiano, 1865, No. 39, pp. 46-61.
