ABSTRACT
In the early autumn of 1542 the plague broke out in Geneva, and on 25 September the council required the clergy to appoint one of their own as minister in the plague hospital in the Plainpalais Quartier. The Basle Reformed church order of 1529 imposed a strict regime of discipline on the people: the ban was used and people were required to attend sermons and the Lord's Supper. However, the intransigent drive towards religious and political uniformity was much less rigorous in Basle than in many of the other centres of the Reformed religion. More significant, however, was Castellio's Latin translation of the Oracula Sibyllina, the first edition of which appeared from the press of Oporinus in August 1546. Castellio's translation of the Sibyllean Oracles was used until the nineteenth century in a variety of combinations with the original text and commentaries and was frequently reprinted.
