Martino Muralto Explained

Martino Muralto (Locarno c.1521-1566) was an Italian lawyer and elder in the exiled Italian Protestant church in Zürich.^[1] The church was made up of 250 members, many refugees from Locarno, and was an influential centre of free Italian Protestantism outside Italy during the period 1540–1620.^[2] Muralto accompanied Lelio Sozzini to Basel, to secure Bernardino Ochino as pastor at Zürich in 1553,^[3] and ten years later it was Muralto again who made a final appeal to Bullinger to intervene in Ochino's expulsion from the city in 1563, following Ochino's Thirty Dialogues, which included a dialogue questioning the Trinity and other matters which attracted opposition.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Taplin The Italian reformers and the Zurich church, c. 1540-1620 Ashgate
2. The History of the Reformation: History of the Christian Church Volume 8 - Page 141 Schaff "Chief among them were Beccaria, Taddeo Duno, Lodovico Ronco, and Martino Muralto. A religious disputation was held there in 1549, about the authority of the pope, the merit of good works, justification, auricular confession,"
3. [Thomas M'Crie the Elder]
4. Taplin "Thus when Martino Muralto visited Bullinger on 30 November in a final effort to have the sentence against Ochino rescinded, he was told that Ochino would be best advised to leave Zurich before the three weeks allotted to him by the.."