Excerpt from Illustrations of Biblical Literature, Vol. 3: Exhibiting the History and Fate of the Sacred Writings, From the Earliest Period to the Present Century; Including Biographical Notices of Translators and Other Eminent Biblical Scholars The persecution which raged against those who em braced the doctrines of the Reformation, obliged many, natives of the Italian states to flee for safety to'geneva, where they established a church, in 1551. Maximilian dc Martinengo, a near kinsman of the counts of Martinengo, an'illustrious family of Italy, was their first pastor. It was natural for him' to wish to place the Bible in the hands of his flock, the translation of Brucioli, the only one they possessed, needing revis10n, to render it more intelligible and conformable to the original. Massimo theophilo DA fiorenza, an Italian, who had embraced the doctrines of Calvin, 'had corrected the new TE sta ment, and published it at Lyons, in 1551, in 16mo. And Jean-dc Tournes reprinted it, in 1556, in 16mo. The Reformed of' Geneva, agreeably to the wish of their minis ter, published a new edition of it in 1555, in 8vo. With the French version in a parallel column. L/vzlliam Rou ille followed the example, and, in published a new testament, at Lyons, in 16mo. In which one column Contained the Latin version of Erasmus, and the other, an Italian translation according to that version. To his edition the same Summaries of the chapters were prefixed as in that of 1555; and in which the doctrines of the reformers were explicitly stated; thus, the summary of (14) Le Long, Biblioth. Sacr. I. Pp. 355-358. Paris, 1723. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.