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    REVIEW. ¦WMiaMai

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    Review. ¦Wmiamai

    REVIEW . ¦ WMiaMai

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    Art . I . —History of the Progress and Suppression of the Reformation in Italy in the Sixteenth Century ; including a Sketch of the History of the Reformation in the Grtsons . By Thomas M'Crie , D . D . Edinburgh ^ Biackwood . 1827 . Dr . M'Crie , who is well known by other works on the history of religious reform , has now favoured us with a History of the Reformation in Ital y during the sixteenth century . An historian has certainly a right to limit his researches within given bounds ; but there are some periods of

    history so intimately connected with each other , that , to endeavour to divide them , and to write the history of only one , independently of the others , may be very injurious to historical truth . Great revolutions , either religious or political , are brought about , not b y sudden causes , but by a long concourse of circumstances , having their origin in distant periods and events , which cannot be overlooked by any one who wishes to give a full idea of such revolutions . Nor , on the other hand , can any one imagine that as soon as a revolution is quenched by a deluge of blood it is altogether extinguished , and that no discoverable traces of it are left .

    Dr . M'Crie has certainly fallen into the fault of Hmitmg his views too much . Without at all adequately considering whether , and to what extent , the progress of reform in Italy in the sixteenth century was connected with the state of religious opinion in that country during the preceding ages * he is satisfied with giving , as an introduction to his book , a very short and imperfect sketch of the " State of Religion in Italy before the era of the Reformation , " in which none but some of the most known and least important

    facts are recorded ; some common-place passages of Dante are alluded to ; and not even the names of whole sects , which were very remarkable in Italy during those times , are mentioned . True it is , that we are told that in 1370 some Vaudois from the Valleys of Pragela went to Calabria and established themselves quietly there , but it is only to remark , " that the first gleam of light at the revival of letters shone on that remote spot of Italy

    where the Vaudois had found an asylum : " from which one would suppose he had forgotten that Dante , with whom , if not by whom , literature was revived , had been dead fifty years before these Vaudois went to Calabria ( if the date be correct ); and that Barlaam taught Greek to Petrarch in 1362 , and Leonzio Pilato to Boccaccio in ] 360 ; so that this light from Calabria did not come from that remote spot of Italy where the Vaudois had found an asylum , but they found an asylum where literature had revived , * There was a

    cir-* We must observe that there are very good authorities for asserting that those who went to Calabria , were Albigenses , who settled there about the year 1230 . They were not French or Pic ( Jmontese > but Lpmbards , and they gave the name of ' * Guardia de * Lombardi * ' to tjie place where they went to in Calabria . They were persecuted because not being satisfied with their condition , having heard from their friends In Lombardy ( with whom they had kept up a correspondence ) of the

    reformation of Luther , they were the first to spread it in the south of Italy , and sent for two ministers who came from Geneva . See Gianmne ht . d $ Napoii , L . xxxii , c . v . ; and also TAuanus , ( qpist . dedicat . Hist , sui temp , ad Henricum IV . Regem , ) who * ays , that from some of the same people who retired into this country Wickliff and some of his followers sprang . This writer besides relates that many of them went to Bohemia and to Poland .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1828, page 27, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2556/page/27/