Martino Muralto

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]

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 History of the progress and suppression of the Reformation in Italy Edinburgh 1833 "of genius and undaunted resolution ; and Martino de Muralto, a doctor of laws, and a person of noble birth, who had great influence in the bailiwick."
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"Thus when Martino Muralto visited Bullinger on 30 November in a final effort to have the sentence against Ochino rescinded, he was told that Ochino would be best advised to leave Zurich before the three weeks allotted to him by the.."