Editing Peter Martyr Vermigli (section)

===Flight from Italy and first Strasbourg professorship (1542–1547)===
Vermigli was widely respected and very cautious. He was able to continue his reform efforts in Lucca without any suspicion of unorthodox views, despite a papal meeting there with [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Emperor Charles V]] in 1541.{{sfn|McNair|1967|p=239}} His eventual downfall was caused by two of his followers, one of whom openly questioned papal authority and another who celebrated a Protestant form of the Eucharist.{{sfn|Taplin|2004}} The reconstitution of the [[Roman Inquisition]] in 1542 may have been in part a response to the fear that Lucca and other cities would defect from the Catholic Church.{{sfn|McNair|1967|p=249}} The authorities of the [[Republic of Lucca]] began to fear that their political independence from the [[Holy Roman Empire]] was at stake if their city continued to be viewed as a Protestant haven. Bans on Protestant books heretofore ignored were enforced, religious feasts which had been dropped were reinstated, and religious processions were scheduled to assure Rome of Lucca's loyalty.{{sfn|McNair|1967|pp=254–255}}

Vermigli was summoned to a Chapter Extraordinary of the Lateran Congregation, and his friends warned him that he had powerful adversaries. These increasingly foreboding events contributed to his decision to ignore the summons and flee, but he was finally persuaded by his conscience against the [[Mass (Catholic Church)|Masses]] he was bound to perform.{{sfn|McNair|1967|p=265–268}} Vermigli fled Lucca for [[Pisa]] on 12 August 1542 by horse with three of his canons.{{efn|The canons were [[Paolo Lacizi]], Teodosio Trebelli and Giulio Santerenziano.{{sfn|Taplin|2004}} Vermigli was succeeded as prior by Francesco da Pavia.{{sfn|McNair|1967|p=271}}}} There he celebrated a Protestant form of the Eucharist for the first time.{{sfn|James|1998|p=39}} When he stopped in Florence, staying in Badia Fiesolana where he had entered religious life, Vermigli learned that [[Bernardino Ochino]] had arrived there.{{sfn|McNair|1967|pp=276–277}} Vermigli convinced Ochino, a popular preacher with Protestant leanings, to flee Italy as well.{{sfn|McNair|1967|p=282}} On 25 August Vermigli left for [[Zürich]] by way of [[Ferrara]] and [[Verona]].{{sfnm|Taplin|2004|McNair|1967|2p=290}}

Once Vermigli arrived in Zürich he was questioned regarding his theological views by several Protestant leaders including [[Heinrich Bullinger]], [[Konrad Pellikan]], and [[Rudolph Gualther]]. They eventually determined that he could be allowed to teach Protestant theology,{{sfn|James|1998|p=3}} but there was no position vacant for him to fill there or in [[Basel]], where he went next. In a letter to his former congregation in Lucca, he explained his motives for leaving and also expressed discouragement at not being able to find a post.{{sfnm|McLelland|1957|1p=10|Hobbs|2009|2p=38}} Basler humanist [[Bonifacius Amerbach]] assisted him with money, and reformer [[Oswald Myconius]] recommended him to Martin Bucer in [[Strasbourg]], with whose writings Vermigli was already familiar.{{sfn|Hobbs|2009|p=38}} Vermigli moved to Strasbourg and became a close personal friend and ally of Bucer,{{sfn|James|1998|p=4}} who granted him the chair of Old Testament at the [[Jean Sturm Gymnasium|Senior School]], succeeding [[Wolfgang Capito]].{{sfn|Campi|2009|p=97}} He began by lecturing on the [[minor prophets]], followed by [[Book of Lamentations|Lamentations]], [[Book of Genesis|Genesis]], [[Book of Exodus|Exodus]], and [[Leviticus]].{{sfn|Hobbs|2009|p=50}}{{efn|The lectures on Lamentations{{sfn|Hobbs|2009|p=50}} and Genesis were published as commentaries, but the lectures on the minor prophets{{sfn|Hobbs|2009|p=50}} and Exodus have not survived.{{sfn|Hobbs|2009|p=60}}}} Vermigli was delighted to be able to teach from the original-language text of the Old Testament, as many of his students could read Hebrew.{{sfn|Hobbs|2009|p=49}} He was well-liked by his students and fellow scholars.{{sfn|Hobbs|2009|p=53}} Vermigli was known for precision, simplicity, and clarity of speech in contrast to Bucer's propensity for digressions which sometimes left his students lost.{{sfnm|Anderson|1975|1p=80|Hobbs|2009|2p=53}}

Two of Vermigli's former colleagues in Lucca—Lacizi and Tremellius—would join him in Strasbourg.{{sfn|Hobbs|2009|p=54}} In 1544 he was elected [[canon (priest)|canon]] of [[St. Thomas, Strasbourg|St. Thomas Church, Strasbourg]].{{sfn|McNair|1994|p=8}} In 1545 Vermigli married his first wife, [[Catherine Dammartin]], a former nun from [[Metz]].{{sfn|Taplin|2004}} Catherine knew no Italian, and Peter very little German, so it is assumed that they conversed in Latin.{{sfn|Kirby|2009|p=137}}