Editing Bernardino Ochino (section)

===Augsburg and England===
In 1545 Ochino became minister of the Italian Protestant congregation at [[Augsburg]]. From this time dates his contact with [[Caspar Schwenckfeld]]. In 1546 he participated in the anti-Trinitarian [[Collegia Vicentina]].<ref name="Mattei">Roberto de Mattei, A Sinistra di Lutero, Solfanelli 2017, pp82-86</ref> He was compelled to flee from Augsburg when, in January 1547, the city was occupied by the imperial forces for the [[Diet of Augsburg]].

Ochino found asylum in England, where he was made a [[prebendary]] of [[Canterbury Cathedral]], received a [[pension]] from [[Edward VI]]'s privy purse, and composed his major work, the ''Tragoedie or Dialoge of the unjuste usurped primacie of the Bishop of Rome''. This text, originally written in [[Latin]], is extant only in the 1549 translation of Bishop [[John Ponet]]. The form is a series of dialogues.  [[Lucifer]], enraged at the spread of [[Jesus]]'s kingdom, convokes the fiends in council, and resolves to set up the [[pope]] as [[antichrist]].  The state, represented by the emperor [[Phocas]], is persuaded to connive at the pope's assumption of spiritual authority; the other churches are intimidated into acquiescence; Lucifer's projects seem fully accomplished, when [[Heaven]] raises up [[Henry VIII]] of England and his son for their overthrow.

Several of Ochino's ''Prediche'' were translated into English by [[Anne Bacon|Anna Cooke]]; and he published numerous controversial treatises on the Continent. Ochino's ''Che Cosa è Christo'' was translated into Latin and English by the future Queen Elizabeth I of England in 1547.<ref>Mueller, Janel & Scodel, Joshua, eds, ''Elizabeth I: Translations, 1544-1589'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009)</ref>