François Bonivard and his Difformes Reformateurs
Contributor(s): W. G. Naphy
This article presents François Bonivard (the pre-Reformation Prior of Geneva's Cluniac monastery) and his Des Difformes Reformateurs, the premier example of his satirical and polemical skills. In this, he attacks the violence and immorality accompanying and undermining the Reformation. Opposed to...