to exterminate them.

Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose is set against the persecution of Fraticelli.

Etymology

Fraticelli is a diminutive of the Italian frate (plural frati), itself derived from Latin Frater "brother", often shortened to Fra when referring to members of religious orders.

Frati was a designation of the members of the mendicant orders founded during the thirteenth century,

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