When I think of 16th century Protestant Reformation theologians (wait, doesn’t everybody think a lot about that?) my mind ends up in Switzerland and England and Germany but not Italy where the power of the Catholic Church was absolute. But a guy named Peter Martyr Vermigli was an Italian theologian who did a lot of writing and thinking about how the church should operate and his work is often overlooked. He fled Italy and went to England so he could worship and write freely only to get there when Bloody Mary was on the throne and he had to pick up and flee to Switzerland. He died in Zurich on December 12, 1562.
