Italy in the XIII century appeared to Olivi to be devastated by wars and secessions, preliminary signs of the advent of the Antichrist. Rome, the Papal See to which Francis had vowed obedience, was a concurrently a historic and an ideal city, the civitas solis in Isaias 19:18, which the Catholic Fathers called the whore. …
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