Note 809 — Chapter XVI · CALVIN'S FLIGHT. (Spring, 1536.)
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Défense de Calvin, par Drelincourt, p. 337.
[810] Œuvres de Cl. Marot, ii. p. 337.
[811] 'Vengo assicurato da chi ha veduto gli atti dell' Inquisizion di Ferrara.'—Muratori, Annali d'Italia, xiv. p. 305.
[812] 'Che si pestifero mobile fu fatto prigione.'—Ibid.
[813] Calvin on Acts xii. 6.
[814] 'Mentre che era condotto da Ferrara a Bologna.'—Muratori, Annali d'Italia, xix. p. 305.
[815] 'Gente armata.'—Ibid.
[816] 'Fu messo in libertà.'—Ibid.
[817] 'Onde fosse venuto il colpo.'—Muratori, Annali d'Italia, xiv. p. 305.
[818] Bayle's Dictionary, sub voce Castelvetro.—J. Bonnet: Calvin. The discovery happened in 1823.
[819] Tiraboschi, Hist. de la Litt. ital. vii. p. 169.
[820] Bonnet, Calvin au Val d'Aoste, pp. 13, 14.
[821] Dépêches d'Ami Porral au Conseil de Genève.
[822] Lettres du Conseil de Berne au duc de Savoie du dernier Septembre 1535, et au Conseil de Genève du 24 Décembre 1535. These letters were communicated to me, along with others, by M. de Steiner, librarian of the city of Berne, and M. de Stürler, Chancellor of State.
[823] 'Quæ factæ sunt per Bernenses Leuteranos in Provincia Augustana, etc.' Procès-verbal de l'Assemblée du 28 Février 1536.
[824] Many of these names are still to be found in Suisse Romande where the bearers of them had been forced to take refuge.
[825] Il vescovo d'Agosta allo duca di Savoia. The author found this letter, dated from Rome, in the General Archives of the kingdom of Italy, preserved at Turin.
[826] 'Di far dare il governo del Concilio, tanto da sua Santità quanto dallo Imperatore, e re di Francia, a vostra Eccellenza (the duke).'—Ibid.
[827] Mémoires des diocèses de Genève, d'Aoste, etc., par le curé Besson, p. 260.
[828] Ibid. p. 261.
[829] 'Nobilis Nicolaus de Crista, Antonius Vaudan, Bartolomæus, Borgnion, pro communitate parochiæ Sancti Stephani electi, etc.' General Council of February 1536. Archives of the Intendance of Aosta.
[830] 'Illa secta venenosa leuterana.'—Procès-verbal of the Assembly. Archives of the Intendance of Aosta.
[831] MS. in the Archives of the kingdom at Turin.
[832] Documents in the Archives of M. Martinet, formerly deputy of Aosta.—J. Bonnet, Calvin au Val d'Aoste, p. 21.
[833] Mémoires des diocèses de Genève et d'Aoste, etc., par le curé Besson, p. 261.
[834] The idea of Calvin's passage by this col is now generally admitted, and even in Murray's Guide we read, 'Calvin fled by this pass from Aosta.'
[835] Histoire littéraire de Genève, i. p. 182 (edit. 1786).
[836] To the inscription given above, these words have been added:
'Civium munificentia renovavit et adornavit. Anno mdcccxli.'
[837] Godefridus Lopinus, Calvino. MS. preserved in the public Library at Geneva.
[838] Beza, Vita Calvini.
[839] 'Divinitus perductus.'—Beza, Vita Calvini.
[840] Lettres françaises de Calvin, i. p. 22.