Book Notices

Italian convert to the Reformation, Galeazzo Caracciolo, Calvin and the consistory approved divorce and subsequent remarriage on the ground of religious desertion. Al- legedly, Caracciolo's Roman Catholic wife had deserted him. In fact, upon his conversion, Caracciolo had left her. and their children, to affiliate with the Re- formed Church in Switzerland. In effect, Calvin approved divorce and remarriage on the ground of a believer's abandonment of his un- believing (Roman Catholic) wife....