ABSTRACT
By the mid-1550s, the Zurich church had built up an impressive network of Italian contacts, including most figures of significance within the Italian exile community. However, this was a relationship conducted primarily at arm’s length, through correspondence of varying regularity. Unlike Basle or Geneva, Zurich did not in the first instance become home to a substantial Italian exile population, for reasons that have already been outlined. 1 The few individuals, like Lelio Sozzini, who chose to make the city their permanent base could not be said to constitute a genuine Italian ‘community’.
