Comba, Emilio

D.D. (St. Andrew's, Scotland, 1885), Waldensian; b. at San Germano, Waldensian Valleys, Province of Turin, Italy, Aug. 31, 1839; studied at Torre-Pellice and Geneva (under Merle d'Aubigne); ordained in 1863, and until 1872 was an evangelist, chiefly at Venice. In September, 1872, he entered upon his present position, profe or of historical theology and homiletics in the Waldensian College, Florence. He has published, besides an Italian translation from the German of Luthardt's Fundamental Truths, and from the English of Killen's Old Catholic Church, Storia dell a Riforma in Ltalia, Florence, vol. i., 1881; and edits Biblioteca dell a Riforma Italian a, Sec. XVI., 1883 sqq. (reprints of books and manuscripts of Italian reformers of the sixteenth century), in which have appeared Tratt a tell i di P. P. Vergerio, e sua storia di Francesco Spiera, 1883, 2 vols.; II credo di P. M. Vermigli ed il catechismo di Eidelberga, 1883; Istruzione Christian a e comparazioni di Giovanni Valdes e tratt a to dell a Vera Chiesa di P. M. Vermigli, 1884; Dialog hi sette del Rev. Padre Frate Bernard i no Occhino Senese, Generate dei Frati Cappuccini, 1884.