seditious preacher was the price of their absolu- chap.tion. But the revenge of Adrian was yet unsa- LXIX -tisfied, and the approaching coronation of P’re-deric Barbarossa was fatal to the bold reformer,who had offended, though not in an equal de-gree, the heads of the church and state. In theirinterview at Viterbo, the pope represented to theemperor the furious ungovernable spirit of theRomans; the insults, the injuries, the fears, towhich his person and his clergy were continuallyexposed; and the pernicious tendency of theheresy of Arnold, which must subvert the prin-ciples of civil, as well as ecclesiastical subordi-nation. Frederic was convinced by these argu-ments, or tempted by the desire of the imperialcrown; in the balance of ambition, the innocenceor life of an individual is of small account; andtheir common enemy was sacrificed to a momentof political concord. After his retreat fromRome , Arnold had been protected by the vis-counts of Campania, from whom he was extort-ed by the power of Caesar: the prefect of thecity pronounced his sentence; the martyr offreedom was burnt alive in the presence of a Hi* execu-careless and ungrateful people; and his ashes 1'™’. ms.were cast into the Tyber, lest the heretics shouldcollect and worship the relics of their master/
The clergy triumphed in his death: with hisashes, his sect was dispersed; his memory stilllived in the minds of the Romans. From hisschool they had probably derived a new article