High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Arnold of Brescia (c. 1090 – 1155), also known as Arnaldus (Italian: Arnaldo da Brescia), was an Italian monk from Lombardy who called on the Church to renounce ownership of property and participated in the failed Commune of Rome. Eventually arrested, he was hanged by the Church, burned posthumously, and then had his ashes thrown into the Tiber River. Though as a religious reformer no less than a political leader Arnold failed, his teachings on apostolic poverty continued potent 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.