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Romani, 1886. SIXT has published, from the Archives of Königsberg,
forty-four letters of Vergerius to Albert, Duke of Prussia (pp. 533
sqq.), and KAUSLER and SCHOTT (librarian at Stuttgart), his
correspondence with Christopher, Duke of Würtemberg (Briefwechsel
zwischen Christoph Herzog von Würt. und P. P. Vergerius, Tübingen,
1875).—WALTER FRIEDENSBURG: Die Nunciaturen des Vergerio,
1533–’36. Gotha, 1892 (615 pp.). From the papal archives.
Chr. H. Sixt: Petrus Paulus Vergerius, päpstlicher Nuntius,
katholischer Bischof und Vorkämpfer des Evangeliums. Braunschweig,
1855 (pp. 601). With a picture of Vergerius. 2d (title) ed. 1871. The
labors in the Grisons are described in ch. III. 181 sqq.—Scattered
notices of Vergerius are found in Sleidan, Seckendorf, De Porta, Sarpi,
Pallavicini, Raynaldus, Maimburg, Bayle, Niceron, Schelhorn, Salig,
and Meyer (in his monograph on Locarno. I. 36, 51; II. 236–255). A
good article by SCHOTT in Herzog, XVI. 351–357. (Less eulogistic
than Sixt.)
The evangelical Reformation spread in the Italian portions of the Grisons;
namely, the valleys of Pregell or Bregaglia, f231 and Poschiavo (Puschlav),
which still belong to the Canton, and in the dependencies of the Valtellina
(Veltlin), Bormio (Worms), and Chiavenna (Cleven), which were ruled by
governors (like the Territories of the United States), but were lost to the
Grisons in 1797. The Valtellina is famous for its luxuriant vegetation, fiery
wine, and culture of silk. A Protestant congregation was also organized at
Locarno in the Canton Ticino (Tessin), which then was a dependency of
the Swiss Confederacy. This Italian chapter of the history of Swiss
Protestantism is closely connected with the rise and suppression of the
Reformation in Italy and the emigration of many Protestant confessors,
who, like the French Huguenots of a later period, were driven from their
native land, to enrich with their industry and virtue foreign countries where
they found a hospitable home.
The first impulse to the Reformation in the Italian Grisons came from
Gallicius and Campell, who labored in the neighboring Engadin, and knew
Italian as well as Romansh. The chief agents were Protestant refugees who
fled from the Inquisition to Northern Italy and found protection under the
government of the Grisons. Many of them settled there permanently; others
went to Zürich, Basel, and Geneva. In the year 1550 the number of Italian
refugees was about two hundred. Before 1559 the number had increased to