Global InformationId Nostri Cordis information
| Id Nostri Cordis Latin for 'Our Hearty Desires' Papal bull of Pope Innocent VIII | |
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| Signature date | April 27, 1487 |
| Subject | Extermination of the Waldenses |
| Original language | Latin |
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Id Nostri Cordis ("Our Hearty Desires") was a papal bull of Pope Innocent VIII promulgated in Rome on April 27, 1487, which was the 5th Kalends of May 1487 on the Julian Calendar.[1][2][3][4] It was later repeated and signed again in the convent of St Laurence in June 26, 1487.[5] The bull outlined a plenary indulgence (forgiveness) for anyone who joined the crusades against the Waldensians. His commands extended to religious and secular powers and threatened excommunication for those who did not join. A copy of the original bull was kept in the Library at Cambridge for many years and is currently held in the unpublished medieval manuscripts Ms Dd.3.25.[6][7][8] However, Trinity College Dublin in March 2023 has since published the Waldenses Prose document Processus Contra Waldenses which contains a copy of the bull in MS 266.[9]
The bull was given to Albertus de Capitaneis (Alberto Cattaneo) who was the pope's legate and commissioner general for the employment in that same year and to the Dominican Friar Blaise Berra.[10] The bull intended to strike at a group located in Lyons known as the Waldenses and specifically authorized a crusade in the regions of Dauphiné, Savoy, and Piedmont.[11] Following the bull's publication, a Crusade was led into the valleys of the Waldenses and many were killed in the subsequent crusade prompting John Milton to write his sonnet On the Late Massacre in Piedmont.
- ^ Benedetti, Marina; Cameron, Euan (2022-06-27). A Companion to the Waldenses in the Middle Ages. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-42041-0.
- ^ Schaff, Philip (1924). History of the Christian Church: The middle ages, by David S. Schaff. Pt. 1, 1049-1294. 1926. Pt. 2, 1294-1517. 1924. C. Scribner's Sons.
- ^ d'Aubigné, Jean Henri Merle (1847). History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century. American Tract Society.
- ^ Baronio, Cesare (1663). Annales ecclesiastici (in Latin). Mascardus.
- ^ Comba, Emilio; Comba, Teofilo Ernest (1889). History of the Waldenses of Italy: From Their Origin to the Reformation. Truslove & Shirley. ISBN 978-0-7905-4332-1.
- ^ Morland, Samuel (1658). The history of the Evangelical churches of the valleys of Piemont : containing a most exact geographical description of the place, and a faithfull account of the doctrine, life, and persecutions of the ancient inhabitants ; Together, with a most naked and punctual relation of the late bloudy massacre, 1655 ; And a narrative of all the following transactions, to the year of Our Lord, 1658 . Princeton Theological Seminary Library. London : Printed by Henry Hills for Adoniram Byfield. p. 274.
- ^ d'Aubigné, Jean Henri Merle (1847). History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century. American Tract Society. p. 327.
- ^ Benedetti, Marina; Cameron, Euan (2022-06-27). A Companion to the Waldenses in the Middle Ages. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-42041-0.
- ^ Unattributed. "Processus contra Waldenses. IE TCD MS 266". digitalcollections.tcd.ie (in French). N. Gebaude, N. Paris, Vincent Gobaud, Sponsor Carnegie Corporation of New York. p. Folio 19r. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
- ^ Benedetti, Marina; Cameron, Euan (2022-06-27). A Companion to the Waldenses in the Middle Ages. BRILL. p. 447. ISBN 978-90-04-42041-0.
- ^ Buck, Lawrence (2014-02-22). The Roman Monster: An Icon of the Papal Antichrist In Reformation Polemics. Penn State Press. ISBN 978-1-61248-107-4.