THE EXCOMMUNICATION TEXT

"We curse Arduino and his brother Amedeo, marauders and devastators of God’s Church; we curse every inhabitant of Ivrea who gave them help and advice; may they be damned in the city, in the fields, cursed be their properties and their lands and herds and their animals,damned the place where they enter, and they go out; may God send unto them hunger and pestilence: may they be damned, vigilants, travellers, sleepers, resters. May God afflict them with misery, fever, hard frost, scorching heat, infirmity until death.May delirium, blindness, madness, fury afflict them at all times, that their children may become orphans and their wives widows soon.

The text of the excommunication in the "Varmondiano" code is preserved in the Diocesan library of Ivrea. God make them like a wheel in the wind, like fire that blazes up into the forest, like a flame emitted by a mountain. May all these maledictions, from the tips of the toes to the tip of the hair, envelope them everywhere, until the repentants and the humble return to the bosom of Mother Church. And may all the humble people of this Mother Church say: "So be it, so be it. Amen."