Frati gaudenti
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The Frati gaudenti were a fraternity founded around 1250 by six Cavalieri , including Bartolomeo da Breganze , Loderingo degli Andalò and Catalano dei Malavolti. The poet Fra Guittone d'Arezzo also belonged to the order . In 1261 the order was recognized by Pope Urban IV .
They were also called Ordo Militiae Mariae Gloriosae.
The symbol of the order was a Templar cross with two six-pointed stars.
The most prominent opponent of the order, who tried in vain for a reconciliation between the Guelfs and Ghibellines , was a partisan of the Guelfs, the Florentine Dante Alighieri . Dante Alighieri pays tribute to the order in the 23rd song of his Divina Commedia . In the eighth circle of hell , where hypocrites and hypocrites and corrupt ecclesiastical and secular dignitaries are punished, Dante meets two Frati Gaudenti . The two of them are damned to walk around slowly one behind the other in circles with a heavy lead cap on their heads.
The fraternity existed in Bologna until 1589 and in Treviso until 1737.