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Essay on True and False Religion , and some of the writings of Melancthon ; and his curiosity was so much excited by the perusal of these , that he felt an ardent desire of becoming acquainted with their authors . With this view he invited James Cornelli and Franeis Guarini , two of his fellow-students , to be his companions on a tour into Germany , an invitation which they were not slow to accept . Before they had proceeded many miles on their way , these sanguine youths , with buoyant spirits and light hearts , to beguile the
tedium of their journey , entered into a friendly religious discussion ; but being reported to Boniface , Bishop of Ivrea , by some of the country people , as men of suspicious character , he caused them to be apprehended and lodged in prison . Curio was now separated from his companions , and conducted to the castle of Capriano : but after a confinement of about two months , he was liberated at the request of some influential friends , and discharged with a gentle admonition . The bishop , who saw that he was a young man of considerable promise , took him under his own protection , and sent him to
prosecute his studies at the monastery of St . Bemgno ; but here his contempt for the mummeries of the Catholic religion soon displayed itself , and having secretly obtained access to the shrine where certain relics were deposited , he abstracted them from their hiding-place , and left in their room a Bible , upon a blank leaf of which he inscribed these words : " This is the ark of the covenant , from which the oracles of truth may be learned , and in which the true relics of the saints are contained . " The monkish relics above alluded to were produced upon great occasions only , and on the eve of one of these ,
Curio , apprehending that the suspicion of having purloined them would fall upon himself , absconded , and travelled on foot , by way of Milan and Rome , into the Neapolitan territory . After visiting most of the principal cities of Italy , he returned to Milan , where he resided for some years . As he was endowed by nature with talents of the highest order , which he had improved by assiduous cultivation , he was at no loss for the means of obtaining a
comfortable livelihood , which he did by devoting himself to the office of an instructor of youth . During his residence at Milan he was noticed by the principal families of the place , and conducted himself so as to secure the esteem and affection of all parties . At that time the Milanese was occupied by Spanish troops ; and the country was ravaged by famine and pestilence , and all the horrors which usually follow in the train of war . Curio was
very assiduous in his attention to the sufferers , and so far ingratiated himself into the favour of Margherita Bianca Isacia , a young lady of noble family , as to obtain her hand in marriage . In 1530 he removed to Casale , in the neighbouring Duchy of Montferrat , and when he had resided there for some years , he was urged by his friends to return to Moncarlier , and claim the property which had been left by the family , and which , in his absence , had fallen into the hands of his only surviving sister . On this suggestion he was induced to act ; but , being alarmed at the cry of heresy which was raised
against him , be was compelled to fly for safety to a neighbouring town , and to abandon for ever his claim to the family property . At this period of his life he chanced to be one day on a visit with some friends in a certain village , where a Dominican Friar was zealously declaiming against Luther , and telling his hearers that this great light of the Reformation not only permitted his followers to indulge in every species of licentious gratification , but even went so far as to deny the Divinity of Christ , and his birth of the Virgin Mary . At the close of the discourse , Curio requested the preacher to point out any passage in Luther's writings , from which these grave charges could be substantiated ; to which the friar replied , that he would not then discuss
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446 Biographical Ntttices of Eminent Continental Unitarians *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1831, page 446, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2599/page/14/
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