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2 unusual facts about Bernardino Ochino


Bernardino Ochino

Several of Ochino's Prediche were translated into English by Anna Cooke; and he published numerous controversial treatises on the Continent.

Giorgio Biandrata

She had been instrumental in the burning (1539) of Catharine Weygel, at the age of eighty, for anti-trinitarian opinions; but the writings of Ochino had altered her views, which were now anti-Catholic.


Pietro Perna

As a bookseller and apprentice printer he established a network of Italian connections that helped him act as a go between and publisher of Italian reformed thinkers and writers, such as Vermigli, Pier Paolo Vergerio, Jacopo Aconcio, Bernardino Ochino, Lelio Sozzini, Sebastian Castellio, Celio Secondo Curione, etc.

Vittoria Colonna

In 1537, we find her at Ferrara, where she made many friends and helped to establish a Capuchin monastery at the instance of the reforming monk Bernardino Ochino, who afterwards became a Protestant.


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