Arnold of Brescia

Arnold of Brescia (ca.

1090–1155), also known as Arnaldus (Italian: Arnaldo da Brescia), was an Italian canon regular from Lombardy.

He calls on the Church to renounce property ownership and participates in the failed Commune of Rome.

Eventually arrested, he is hanged by the papacy, burned posthumously, and then has his ashes thrown into the Tiber River.

Though as a religious reformer and a political leader Arnold fails, his teachings on apostolic poverty gain currency after his death among "Arnoldists" and more widely among Waldensians and the Spiritual Franciscans, though no written word of his has survived the official condemnation.

Protestants rank him among the precursors of the Reformation.

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