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carried over from their homeland a certain impatience for ecclesiastical discipline and rituals, together with a request that theology be less dogmatic and more open to the needs both of the spirit and of reason. In 1563 Froben and
Bischoff ("Hieronimo Frobenio et Nicolao Episcopio") in Basel published Florio's Italian translation of
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raised an army and marched down to London and overthrew Jane and was proclaimed queen. The latter reacted violently to the elevation of Jane Grey, and had her imprisoned, while her supporters were executed. A failed rebellion in favour of Jane led to a violent anti-Protestant repression. As a result,
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An informal relationship with a woman, which had not been sanctified by marriage, created a scandal among his churchgoers. Florio reported fourteen of them to the authorities, who punished them for ostensibly having lapsed back into
Catholic beliefs. Florio's preaching was often passionately hostile
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to defend himself from the attacks of the
Italian Franciscan Bernardino Spada, whom he had known personally. Spada had accused him of being a Jew. However most of the controversies in which he was involved were with other Protestants in his Swiss canton, many of whom were refugees from Italy, who
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argues that
Shakespeare was in reality Michelangelo Florio. "Crollalanza", was Florio mother's family name, variously given as Crollalanza or Scrollalanza ("shake-speare"). He is said to have emigrated to England where he became (or at least was responsible for the works attributed to)
441:, ne la quale si tratta de la vera e falsa chiesa, de l'essere e qualitĂ de la messa, de la vera presenza di Christo, de la Cena, del Papato, e primato di San Piero, de Concilij & autoritĂ loro: scritto a un heretico, Chamogasko (Basilea?) 1557
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however argued that his assertion could be simply a boast in order to acquire prestige, by associating his origins with a city of great cultural prestige, It is possible he may have been born in
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that same year. After two years of imprisonment, he was brought to trial and condemned to death. He managed to avoid execution by escaping from prison on 6 May 1550. Abandoning his
Franciscan
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in 1554 Florio, together with other
Protestant refugees, fled England. The rebellion also led to Jane's own execution. Florio never forgot his young student, and dedicated to her memory his
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