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ft466 This visit to Noyon is mentioned by Beza in the Latin Vita, who adds
that he then brought his only surviving brother Antoine, with him to
Geneva (XXI. 125). Colladon (58) agrees, and informs us that Calvin
left Du Tillet at Basel, who from there went to Neuchâtel. In his French
Life of C., Beza omits the journey to France: “A son retour d’Italie ...
il passa àla bonne heure par ceste ville de Genève.”
ft467 Not in August (as stated by Beza, Annal. 126, 203, and most
biographers). He went to Basel for two weeks (August 4-19), and
returned to Geneva, according to promise, about the middle of August,
for settlement. See his letter to Daniel, Oct. 13, 1536, in Herminjard,
IV. 87; comp. 77 note; also Rilliet and Roget.
ft468 Beza (Vita, XXI. 125): “At ego tibi, inquit [Farellus], studia tua
praetexenti denuncio omnipotentis Dei nomine futurum ut, nisi in opus
istud Domini nobiscum incumbas, tibi non tam Christum quam te
ipsum quaerenti Dominus maledicat. Hac terribili denunciatione
territus, Calvinus sese presbyterii et magistratus voluntati permisit,
quorum suffragiis, accedente plebis consensu, delectus non
concionator tantum (hoc autem primum recusarat), sed etiam
sacrarum literarum doctor, quod unum admittebat, est designatus
anno Domini MDXXXVI. mense Augusto.” With this should be
compared Calvin’s own account in the Preface to his commentary on
the Psalms, and Ann. Calv. 203 sq. Merle d’Aubigné, at the close of
vol. V. 534-550, gives a dramatic description of Calvin’s first arrival
and interview with Farel at Geneva, with some embellishments of his
imagination.
ft469 Michelet has an eloquent chapter on the transformation of Geneva by
Calvin, who made it from a city of pleasure and commerce “a fabric of
saints and martyrs,” a “ville étonnante oùtout était flamme et prière,
lecture, travail, austerité” (XI. 96).
ft470 “Ille Gallus.” Annal. Calv. XXI. 204. The Registers were then kept in
Latin, but after 1537, in French. The native languages superseded the
Latin with the progress of the Reformation.
ft471 Under that date the Registres du Cons. report: “Icy est
parlédeCALVINUSqu’il na encore guère reçeu et estéarrestéque l’on
luy délivre ung six escus soleil” (Annal. 208).
ft472 Ann. 208-210.”Conseil des Deux-cents (Lundi 19 Mars). Fuit
propositum negotium illorum Katabaptistarum sur lesquelz a