Vergerio, Pietro Paolo

Actiones duae secretarii Pauli Papae, huius nominis IIII. (Pforzheim: Georg Rab), 1559, [Mendham V20; VD16 V636]
A quegli venerabili Padri Dominicani, che difendono il Rosario per cosa buona. [Zurich: Froschauer or Poschiavo: Landolfo], 1550, [Censimento 16 CNCE 72103; Mendham V23]
Omnibus ecclesiae Christi pacem optantibus... [?Tübingen: Morhard, c. 1560?], 10 ff., [Mendham V25]
Exemplum literarum R.D. Gerardi Busdragi in Episcopatu Patavino Suffraganei. [Tübingen: heirs of Ulrich Morhard], 1558, 8 ff., [not found in Mendham catalogue; VD16 ZV 15179, 2 copies]
Ai Reverendissimi vescovi della Italia, che per l'indittion di Pio Papa iiii sono chiamati. Al Concilio di Trento. [Tübingen: heirs of Ulrich Morhard], 1561, 12 ff., [Mendham V22; VD16 ZV 15185, 2 copies]
Della indittione del Concilio di Trento, publicata da Pio Quarto. [?Tübingen: Ulrich Morhard], 1561, 16 ff., [Mendham V24]

6 works in one volume, 8vo (137 x 90mm.), contemporary vellum, manuscript note at front by Mendham regarding the authorship of these tracts, title-page of first work slightly torn at foredge, lacking both pairs of ties

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Pietro Paolo Vergerio (1498-1565) was bishop of Capodistria before becoming the first Italian bishop to turn Protestant; he was deprived of his seat in 1549. He was a prolific author and propagandist, often distributing his works for free, and attempted to spread Protestant literature in Italian through northern Italy in the face of the Inquisition and the Congregation of the Index.

His first printer was Dolfino Landolfo of Poschiavo, just over the border from Italy, and once settled in Tübingen from 1553 onwards he used Morhard who eventually became competent in the printing of texts in Italian. To avoid problems with the Inquisition, he started distributing his pamphlets by mail (the Exemplum literarum has a central fold throughout and was plausibly distributed this way).