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In the beginning of the sixteenth century the Grisonians acquired by
conquest from the duchy of Milan several beautiful and fertile districts
south of the Alps adjoining the Milanese and Venetian territories, namely,
the Valtellina and the counties of Bormio (Worms) and Chiavenna
(Cleven), and annexed them as dependencies ruled by bailiffs. It would
have been wiser to have received them as a fourth league with equal rights
and privileges. These Italian possessions involved the Grisons in the
conflict between Austria and Spain on the one hand, which desired to keep
them an open pass, and between France and Venice on the other, which
wanted them closed against their political rivals. Hence the Valtellina has
been called the Helena of a new Trojan War. Graubünden was invaded
during the Thirty Years’ War by Austro-Spanish and French armies. After
varied fortunes, the Italian provinces were lost to Graubünden through
Napoleon, who, by a stroke of the pen, Oct. 10, 1797, annexed the
Valtellina, Bormio, and Chiavenna to the new Cisalpine Republic. The
Congress of Vienna transferred them to Austria in 1814, and since 1859
they belong to the united Kingdom of Italy.
§ 37. THE REFORMATION IN THE GRISONS. COMANDER.
GALLICIUS. CAMPELL.
The work of CAMPELL quoted in § 36.
Bartholomäus Anhorn: Heilige Wiedergeburt der evang. Kirche in
den gemeinen drei Bündten der freien hohen Rhätien, oder
Beschreibung ihrer Reformation und Religionsverbesserung, etc.
Brugg, 1680 (pp. 246). A new ed. St. Gallen, 1860 (pp. 144, 8°). By
the same: Püntner Aufruhr im Jahr 1607, ed. from MSS. by Conradin
von Mohr, Chur, 1862; and his Graw-Püntner [Graubündner]-Krieg,
1603–1629, ed. by Conr. von Mohr, Chur, 1873.
*Petrus Dominicus Rosius De Porta (Reformed minister at Scamff,
or Scanfs, in the Upper Engadin): Historia Reformationis Ecclesiarum
Raeticarum, ex genuinis fontibus et adhuc maximam partem numquam
impressis sine partium studio deducta, etc. Curiae Raetorum. Tom. I.,
1771 (pp. 658, 4°); Tom. II., 1777 (pp. 668); Tom. Ill., Como, 1786.
Comes down to 1642. Next to Campell, the standard authority and
chief source of later works.
Leonhard Truog (Reformed pastor at Thuais): Reformations-
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