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Excerpt from From Dawn to Dark in Italy: A Tale of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Cntury
This historical tale of the Italian Reformation has been prepared with great care from the best authorities on the subject. The writer has endeavoured to present a faithful picture of a period the most eventful in the re ligious history of Italy, when the little light that had always lingered among the Vaudois in the recesses of the Alps seemed rising and spreading on the horizon toward a perfect day. Many a heart in the crowded cities of the priest-ridden land hailed it with gladness. Cloistered monks, nuns in their narrow cells, Roman nobles, Florentine citizens, Venetian senators, not a few, Opened their souls to its eifulgence. It has been painful to write how that glorious light was quenched, gradually, but surely. One by one, Italy's contingent to the noble army of martyrs was dismissed heavenward, amid blood and fire which darkened the land. Ruthless and bloody per secution was followed by a terrible retribution of spiritual death, continuing almost to the present hour.
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