History of the Progress and Suppression of the Reformation in Italy in the Sixteenth Century, including a Sketch of the History of the Reformation in the Grisons

by Thomas McCrie

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518 pages, Hardcover

Published August 21, 2015

About the author

Rev. Dr. Thomas McCrie (sometimes known as Thomas M'Crie, McCree or Maccrae) (1772 – 1835) was a Scottish historian and writer. He was the father of Thomas McCrie (1797 - 1875).

Between 1802 and 1806, he contributed a series of biographical sketches to The Christian Magazine, including an Account of the concluding part of the Life and the Death of John Knox; a Memoir of Mr. John Murray, minister of Leith and Dunfermline at the beginning of the 17th century; a Sketch of the Progress of the Reformation in Spain; The Suppression of the Reformation in Spain; the Life of Dr. Andrew Rivet, the French Protestant minister; the Life of Patrick Hamilton; the Life of Francis Lambert of Avignon; and the Life of Alexander Henderson. He was subsequently the author of the Life of John Knox (1811) and the Life of Andrew Melville (1819).

In a series of papers published in the Edinburgh Religious Instructor McCrie criticised Walter Scott's representation of the Covenanting defenders of Scottish presbyterianism in his novel Old Mortality (1816).

Reviews

[Melissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

This history details the impact of the Protestant Reformation in Italy and its suppression by the Inquisition. Interestingly, prior to the Inquisition, Bible teaching thrived in cosmopolitan cities like Venice. But after the Inquisition, much of the story becomes that of refugees, as evangelicals who could not make it across the Alps to Switzerland faced certain torture and death. The stories of those who forsook the wealth of Italy to minister in poor, mountain villages, deeply grateful for their newfound religious liberty, are quite moving.