Dolcino, a heresiarch and martyr of the 14th century, of the Apostolic Brethren, a sect which rose in Piedmont who made themselves obnoxious to the Church; was driven to bay by his persecutors, and at last caught and tortured and burnt to death; a similar fate overtook others of the sect, to its extermination.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Dolci, Carlo * Doldrums