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Pietro Martire Vermigli
1499–1562
An Italian reformer who crossed borders and confessions, he became one of the clearest theological voices of the Reformation. His life joined sharp scholarship with real personal risk, from monastic study in Italy to teaching and writing in Strasbourg, Oxford, and Zurich.
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A treatise of the cohabitacyon of the faithfull with the vnfaithfull. Whereunto is added. A sermon made of the confessing of Christe and his gospell, and of the denyinge of the same.
by Pietro Martire Vermigli, Heinrich Bullinger
About the author
Born in Florence on September 8, 1499, Pietro Martire Vermigli—better known in much of Europe as Peter Martyr Vermigli—entered the Augustinian order and built an early reputation as a gifted preacher and scholar. As he engaged more deeply with Scripture and the debates of his time, his views moved toward the Protestant Reformation, putting him on a dangerous path in Catholic Italy.
After fleeing Italy in 1542, he became an important Reformed theologian in northern Europe. He taught in Strasbourg, then in England at the University of Oxford after being invited during the reign of Edward VI, where he helped shape Reformation thought, especially in debates over the Eucharist. When the Catholic restoration under Mary I made England unsafe, he left again and eventually settled in Zurich.
Vermigli died in Zurich on November 12, 1562. He is remembered for combining humanist learning, careful biblical interpretation, and a steady influence on Reformed theology across Italy, England, and the Swiss churches.