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Le Vergeriane, published a year after the flight of bishop Pier Paolo Vergerio to Switzerland, presents the correspondence between Girolamo Muzio and Vergerio over the three-year period between 1546 and 1549. In January 1546, Muzio informed his childhood friend from Koper of the first accusations of heresy made against him and appealed to Vergerio in his letters several times hence to return to the righteous path of the Catholic teachings and thereby redeem his sins, claiming that Vergerio’s ideas about the Reformation could corrupt the people of Koper. Backed by strong support from the Koper camp, Muzio wrote no less than seven letters to Ottonello Vida, five to the town of Koper, three to his cousin Marco Nunzio, and one to the nuns of Koper, in all of which he criticised bishop Vergerio’s stance in relation to the papacy, to the concept of free will, the sacraments, the Holy Bible, and the cult of saints. Muzio’s campaign against Vergerio, aimed at achieving his removal from the bishopric and preventing the ‘danger’ of his proselytism, was joined by other prominent figures, including Antonio Elio, father Pietro di Giovanni, Vincenzo Fedeli, Giovanni Della Casa, Annibale Grisoni and Tommaso Stella. The present paper highlights the role of one of the most authoritative Italian cardinals of the 16th century, Alessandro Farnese, who assiduously manoeuvred the persecution of Vergerio from behind the scenes.