The Fedeli D' Amore

"the Fedeli d’Amore, whose existence must be considered a reality rather than a mere working hypothesis, constituted one of those various heretical sects with an initiatory foundation, possessing their own rites and symbols. With the aim of restoring the cult of truth to the world, they linked back to the humanistic and initiatory cultural Unions that arose in Rome in the second century BC, through the influence of Stoicism and Epicureanism. As successors of these Unions and situated between the slaughter of the Albigensians and that of the Templars, the Fedeli d’Amore pursued a goal of civil and religious renewal through poetic form, opposing every type of doctrinal dogmatism."