Editing Peter Martyr Vermigli (section)

===Early life (1499–1525)===
[[File:Le balze, veduta su badia fiesolana.JPG|thumb|The [[Badia Fiesolana]], where Vermigli entered religious life]]
Vermigli was born in [[Florence]], the centre of the [[Republic of Florence|Florentine Republic]], on 8 September 1499 to Stefano di Antonio Vermigli, a wealthy shoemaker, and Maria Fumantina.{{sfn|Taplin|2004}} He was christened Piero Mariano the following day.{{sfn|McNair|1967|p=53}} He was the eldest of three children; his sister Felicita Antonio was born in 1501 and his brother Antonio Lorenzo Romulo was born in 1504.{{sfn|McNair|1967|p=56}} His mother taught him [[Latin]] before enrolling him in a school for children of [[Nobility of Italy#Pre-unification|noble Florentines]].{{efn|The school was run by {{Interlanguage link multi|Marcello Virgilio Adriano|it}}.{{sfn|Taplin|2004}}}} She died in 1511, when Piero was twelve.{{sfn|McNair|1967|p=60}} Vermigli was attracted to the [[Priesthood in the Catholic Church|Catholic priesthood]] from an early age.{{sfn|McNair|1967|p=62}} In 1514 he became a [[Catholic novitiate|novice]] at the [[Badia Fiesolana]], a monastery of the [[Canons Regular of the Lateran]].{{sfn|Steinmetz|2001|p=106}} The Lateran Canons were one of several institutions born out of a fifteenth-century religious reform movement. They emphasised strict discipline, and could be transferred from house to house rather than being bound to stability in one place, as was the custom of Benedictine monasticism. They also sought to provide ministry in urban areas.{{sfn|Zuidema|2011|p=376}} Peter's sister followed him into the monastic life, becoming a nun the same year.{{sfn|McNair|1967|p=63}}

On completing his novitiate in 1518, Vermigli took the name Peter Martyr after the thirteenth-century [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] Saint [[Peter of Verona]].{{sfn|Taplin|2004}} The Lateran Congregation had recently decided that promising young ordinands should be sent to the monastery of [[Saint John of Verdara]] in [[Padua]] to study [[Aristotle]], so Vermigli was sent there.{{sfn|McNair|1967|pp=84–85}} The [[University of Padua]], with which Saint John of Verdera was loosely affiliated, was a highly prestigious institution at the time.{{sfn|James|1998|p=106}} At Padua, Vermigli received a thorough training in [[Thomism|Thomistic]] [[scholasticism]] and an appreciation for [[Augustine]] and [[Christian humanism]].{{sfn|James|1998|p=108}} Vermigli was determined to read Aristotle in his original language despite the lack of [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] teachers, so he taught himself.{{sfn|McLelland|1957|p=3}} He also made the acquaintance of prominent reform-minded theologians [[Pietro Bembo]], [[Reginald Pole]], and [[Marcantonio Flaminio]].{{sfn|Taplin|2004}}