Like Bernardino Ochino and the Anti-Trinitarians of the Socinian sect, they wandered restlessly through Europe, incapable of settling down in communion with any one of the established forms of Protestantism.

Calvin at Geneva instituted a real crusade against Italian thinkers, who differed from his views.

He drove Valentino Gentile to death on the scaffold; and expelled Gribaldi, Simone, Biandrata, Alciati, Negro.

Most of these men found refuge in Poland, Transylvania, even Turkey.[10] There were bold speculators in Italy enough, who had practically abandoned the Catholic faith.

But the majority of these did not think it worth their while to make an open rupture with the Church.