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the name of Felix Turpio * They were , undoubtedly , published in Ochino ' s own name , of which we have the best of all proofs , in a copy now lying before us . The first volume is dedicated to 4 he Earl of Bedford , and the
second to Prince Nicholas , Radzivil ; but the name Felix Turpio occurs in no part of either volume . Bulliriger informs us * in his preface to the Works of Simler , that Ochino " got rthem printed ( per Italura quendam ) through a certain Italian , " who was his intimate acquaintance and friend ;" and this friend , it is supposedbyHuarus ^ ^ vas Peter Perna , whose name
appears on the last page of each volume . ** Laelius , indeed , " as Ruarus observes , " it could not be ,- for the Dialogues were published A . D . 1563 , the year after his death . " But may not the . friend in question have been Coelius Secundus Curio , to whose inspection they were submitted , by the censor of the press , and by whom they were pronounced not unfit for
publication ? And may not Bullinger have expressed himself thus enigmatically , from a feeling of delicacy towards-Curio , whose character was highly and universally respected , notwithstanding ^ the well-known freedom of his opinions on certain religious subjects ? Curio , as we have already seen , was principally instrumental in their publication , but he escaped harmless ; and in vain did Ochino allege his'ignorance of , the law , which required that
a manuscript , printed in another : place , should be previously subjected t £ the censorship at Zurich . His judges were peremptory ; and it was decree ^ that having published a bookiwhich ought to have been suppressed , an £ which had brought the Church and the Republic into disrepute 3 apj having , moreover , done this contrary to the laws and edicts of the mag §§* trates , it was their will and pleasure that he should immediately be expelled from the city and territory of Zurich , V Bullinger states , in a letter to
Simler , that an opportunity was given to-Ochino of retracting what he had written ; but that having no fair and legitimate excuse to offer , and dec&Qr * ing to hold a disputation on the , subjects-on ^ which he had given offence , he was dismissed by the Senate , > and ordered to quit the country with his whole family . In the proposai-to which Bullinger here alludes ^ there is , it must be admitted , some appearance of candour and fair dealing ; but Ochino knew the spirit in which it was made , and with characteristic prudence declined the treacherous offers ,
In compliance with the terms of the sentence passed upon him , he set out immediately for Basil , and entreated the ministers and professors of that place to intercede with the magistrates on his behalf , and to procure permission for him to take up his abode in that city : but his application was unsuccessful , and he was not allowed to remain there even till spring .
He then went to Mulhausen , with his children , in the depth of an unusually severe winter ; but being still pursued' by the malice of his enemies , he resolved , after a short residence in that town , to seek an asylum in Poland , where he hoped to find that protection which was denied to him in Switzerland . Poland , however , did not afford him a permanent home ; fov U
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7481 Biographical Notices of Eminent Continental Unitarian * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1831, page 748, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2603/page/24/
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