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VERMIGLI, PIETRO MARTIRE

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VERMIGLI, PIETRO MARTIRE , generally known as See also:PETER See also:MARTYR (1500-1562), See also:born at See also:Florence on the 8th of May 1500, was son of Stefano Vermigli, a follower of See also:Savonarola, by his first wife, Maria Fumantina. He owed his See also:Christian names to a See also:vow which his See also:father, actuated by the See also:death of several See also:children in See also:infancy, had made to dedicate any that survived to the Dominican See also:saint, Peter Martyr, who lived in the 13th See also:century. Educated in the Augustinian See also:cloister at See also:Fiesole, he was transferred in 1519 to the See also:convent of St See also:John of Verdara near See also:Padua, where he graduated D.D. about 1527 and made the acquaintance of the future See also:Cardinal See also:Pole. From that See also:year onwards he was employed as a public preacher at See also:Brescia, See also:Pisa, See also:Venice and See also:Rome; and in his intervals of leisure he mastered See also:Greek and See also:Hebrew. In 1530 he was elected See also:abbot of the Augustinian monastery at See also:Spoleto, and in 1533 See also:prior of the convent of St Peter ad Awam at See also:Naples. About this See also:time he read See also:Bucer's commentaries on the Gospels and the See also:Psalms and also See also:Zwingli's De See also:vera et falsa religione; and his Biblical studies began to affect his views. He was accused of erroneous See also:doctrine, and the See also:Spanish See also:viceroy of Naples prohibited his See also:preaching. The See also:prohibition was removed on See also:appeal to Rome, but in 1541 Vermigli was transferred to See also:Lucca, where he again See also:fell under suspicion. Summoned to appear before a See also:chapter of his See also:order at See also:Genoa, he fled in 1542 to Pisa and thence to another See also:Italian reformer, Bernardino See also:Ochino, at Florence. Ochino escaped to See also:Geneva, and Vermigli to See also:Zurich, thence to See also:Basel, and finally to See also:Strassburg, where, with Bucer's support, he was appointed See also:professor of See also:theology and married his first wife, See also:Catherine See also:Dammartin of See also:Metz. Vermigli and Ochino were both invited to See also:England by See also:Cranmer in 1547, and given a See also:pension of See also:forty marks by the See also:government. In 1548 Vermigli was appointed regius professor of divinity at See also:Oxford, in See also:succession to the notorious Dr See also:Richard See also:Smith, and was incorporated D.D.

In 1549 he took See also:

part in a See also:great disputation on the See also:Eucharist. He had abandoned See also:Luther's doctrine of consubstantiation and adopted the doctrine of a Real Presence conditioned by the faith of the recipient. This was similar to the view now held by Cranmer and See also:Ridley, but it is difficult to prove that Vermigli had any great See also:influence in the modifications of the See also:Book of See also:Common See also:Prayer made h. 1552. He was consulted on the question, but his recommendations •seem hardly distinguishable from those of Bucer, the effect of which is itself disputable. He was also appointed one of the commissioners for the reform of the See also:canon See also:law. On See also:Mary's See also:accession Vermigli was permitted to return to Strassburg, where, after some opposition raised on the ground that he had abandoned Lutheran doctrine, he was reappointed professor of theology. He befriended a number of See also:English exiles, but had himself in 1556 to accept an offer of the See also:chair of Hebrew at Zurich owing to his increased See also:alienation from Lutheranism. He was invited to Geneva in 1557, and to England again in 1561, but declined both invitations, maintaining, however, a See also:constant See also:correspondence with See also:Jewel and other English prelates and reformers until his death at Zurich on the r2th of See also:November 1562. His first wife, who died at Oxford on the 5th of See also:February 1553, was disinterred in 1557 and tried for See also:heresy; legal See also:evidence was not forthcoming because witnesses had not understood her See also:tongue; and instead of the See also:corpse being burnt, it was merely See also:cast on a dunghill in the See also:stable of the See also:dean of See also:Christ See also:Church. The remains were identified after See also:Elizabeth's accession, mingled with the supposed See also:relics of St Frideswide to prevent future desecration, and reburied in the See also:cathedral. Vermigli's second wife, Caterina Merenda, whom he married at Zurich, survived him, marrying a See also:merchant of See also:Locarno.

Vermigli published over a See also:

score of theological See also:works, chiefly Biblical commentaries and See also:treatises on the Eucharist. His learning was greater than his originality, and he was one of the least heterodox of the Italian divines who rejected See also:Roman Catholicism. His views approximated most nearly to those of See also:Martin Bucer. Josias See also:Simler's Oratio, published in 1563 and translated into English in 1583, is the basis of subsequent accounts of Vermigli. The best lives are by F. C. See also:Schlosser (1809) and C. See also:Schmidt (1858). See also See also:Parker See also:Soc. Publ. (See also:General See also:Index), especially the Zurich Letters; See also:Strype's Works; See also:Foxe's Acts and Monuments; See also:Burnet's Hist., ed. See also:Pocock; See also:Dixon's See also:History; and Dict. of Nat.

Biogr. lviii. 253-256. (A. F.

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