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1548: |
Born in Nola, near Naples, southern Italy. |
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1554-63: |
Educated in Nola. |
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1563: |
Enters the Monastery of St. Domenico, Naples. |
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1576: |
Leaves monastery when suspected of heresy. Excommunicated in absentia. |
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1576-77: |
In Venice and Padua. |
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1577-79: |
Lives for short periods in Rome, Genoa, Noli, Bergamo, Savona, and Turin. |
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1579: |
In Geneva and Lyon. Placed on trial in Geneva by Calvinists, but escapes with a caution. |
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1579-81: |
Teaches in Toulouse, France. |
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1581-83: |
Teaches in France. Spends time in Paris, at the court of King Henry III. |
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1583-85: |
In England, where he may have worked as a spy for Francis Walsingham and lectured at Oxford, and where he wrote many of his most famous books. |
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1584: |
Publishes The Ash Wednesday Supper and The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast in England. |
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1585: |
Returns briefly to France. |
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1586-88: |
Teaches in Wittenberg, Germany. |
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1588-90: |
Lives and works in Prague and Helmstedt. |
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1590-91: |
Lives in Frankfurt and Zurich. |
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Autumn 1591: |
Travels to Venice at the invitation of Giovanni Mocenigo. |
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November 1591–March 1592: |
Teaches at the University of Padua. |
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May 1592: |
Arrested by the Venetian Inquisition and placed on trial. |
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February 1593: |
Incarcerated in the prison of the Roman Inquisition. |
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February 19, 1600: |
Burned at the stake in the Field of Flowers, Rome. |