ABSTRACT
When Tremellius arrived in Strasbourg, in the early months of 1543, his life entered a new phase. Of course, there were strands of continuity. As in Lucca, he would teach Hebrew, for example, while several of his colleagues from there joined him in exile. But he must still have felt rather disoriented. After all, he had only just completed a profound religious transformation; rather than having the opportunity to come to terms in comfort with the religious choice that he had made, Tremellius had immediately been forced to leave Italy. Over the four years or so that he would spend in Strasbourg, Tremellius would see further changes in his personal, intellectual and professional life. While he was there, he would marry and establish a family. In Strasbourg, too, he would meet several of the leading figures of Protestantism, whose works he had already become familiar with in Italy, including Martin Bucer and John Calvin. Encountering such individuals, and living in a city as closely associated with the Reformation as Strasbourg, Tremellius would have gained a very different perspective on that movement than had been possible in the land of his birth. Moreover, during this period, Tremellius took some important early steps towards establishing his own place within the intellectual elite of the European Reformation.
