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Piedmontese Easter
The Piedmontese Easter was the massacre of Waldensian Protestants in the valleys west of Turin by troops of the Duchy of Savoy in April 1655. Sent to enforce restrictions on where the Waldensians could live, the soldiers killed many hundreds of villagers. The killings caused outrage across Protestant Europe: Oliver Cromwell's government protested to Savoy, and John Milton wrote the sonnet 'On the Late Massacre in Piedmont'.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Piedmontese Easter. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/piedmontese-easter
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