Simonetta Carr wrote the following article for Evangelical Times. It appears on page 24 of the January 2011 issue. With the permission of ET, Carr shared her article with Reformation Italy.
It was the summer of 1542 in Italy. After the previous year’s disappointing attempt to conciliate Roman Catholics and Protestants at the Diet of Regensburg, Pope Paul III was pressed on all sides.
In Rome, the consistory had just agreed to renew the Roman Inquisition under the oversight of Cardinal Giampietro Carafa. On the other hand, throughout Italy, embers of the Protestant religion had steadily been flickering into flame, largely promoted by religious orders embracing an Augustinian view of justification.
Protestant books were smuggled in from the north, mostly through Venice. Scholars were arriving from all over Europe, bringing new ideas.
For more of this excellent article, little expounded amongst Anglicans, yet so important to the English Reformation, see:
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