Keywords

• The article observes the crossway between reformation and reformed orthodoxy
• Italian evangelism and Italian calvinism abroad. Recent researches have shown the continuity between Calvin and Calvinists
• but there is a particular Italian heritage in the development of the early reformed theology. First
• the discovery of aristotelism of the school of Padua had been the philosophical basis of the most part of the reformed orthodoxy. Second
• the development of reformed political thought received some important inputs by Italian republicanism and by right of defiance. Last
• from Vermigli to Francesco Turrettini
• through Zanchi and Diodati
• the presence of Italian theologians may be shown as a golden belt that develops itself by the teaching of Lordâ€
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• s Supper to the orthodox doctrine of predestination (Dort) and the inspiration of the Bible (Formula consensus)