"Flagellant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... all Europe was from time to time flooded by these great tides, which carried away whole peoples in their waves. The Crusades and the Flagellant revival are instances. Italy took part in both of these movements. The first great companies of flagellants appeared, immediately after the fall of Ezzelino and his house, in the neighbourhood of the same Perugia which ...
— The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy • Jacob Burckhardt |
