Editing Lucilio Vanini (section)

===In England (1612–1614)===
Vanini then fled to England, along with his Genoese companion Bonaventure Genocchi. They passed through [[Bologna]], [[Milan]], the Swiss canton of [[Graubünden]], and descended via the [[Rhine]], through [[Germany]] and the [[Netherlands]], to the [[North Sea]] coast and the [[English Channel]], finally reaching [[London]] and the [[Lambeth]] residence of the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]]. Here the two remained for nearly two years, hiding their true identity from their English guests. In July 1612, they both renounced their Catholic faith and embraced [[Anglicanism]].

By 1613, however, Vanini was having doubts, so he appealed to the Pope to be allowed back into the Catholic fold, but as a secular priest rather than as a friar; the request was granted by the Pope himself.<ref name="Galileo Project" /> Around the start of 1614, Vanini visited the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford and confided to some acquaintances his imminent flight from England, so in January, he and Genocchi were arrested on the orders of the Archbishop of Canterbury, [[George Abbot (bishop)|George Abbot]]. They managed to escape however, Genocchi in February 1614 and Vanini in March. The Spanish ambassador in London and the chaplain of the embassy of the Venetian Republic were thought to have engineered their escapes. The two passed through the hands of the papal nuncio in Flanders, [[Guido Bentivoglio]], to the papal nuncio in Paris, [[Roberto Ubaldini]].