One of these, Francis Turretin, born at Geneva in 1623, had, after the usual wanderings of Continental scholars in those days, just returned to Geneva (1653), and settled there in what may be called the family-business, i.e.the profession of Theology.

In this he was to attain extraordinary celebrity, his _Institutio Theologiae Elencticae_ ranking to this day among Calvinistic Theologians as a master-work of its kind.

Well, this Francis Turretin, rising into fame at Geneva, just as Ezekiel Spanheim was, and seeing Spanheim daily, had, it seems from Milton's letter, a brother in London, on intimate terms with Milton; and Milton's proposition to young Spanheim was that they should correspond in future through the two Turretins.

Who would have thought to find the future author of the _Institutio Theologiae Elencticae_ used by Milton for postal purposes?
Is it not clear too that the London Turretin must have been one of Milton's informants about Morus's reasons for leaving Geneva?
Respectability everywhere, at our present date at least, seems adverse to Morus.[2] [Footnote 1: For mention of Jean Louis Calandrin, the Genevese merchant, see Letters between Pell and Thurloe in _Vaughan's Protectorate_ (I.302, 308, 354).

He died at Geneva, in Feb.
1655-6, about a year after this mention of him by Milton.