Part One: The formative years -- Childhood and education -- Vicar of Glarus and Chaplain in Italy -- Chaplain at Einsiedelm: The call to Zurich -- Beginning at Zurich: The Great Plague -- Part Two: The reformer -- Zwingli, the biblical preacher -- Ways and means: the temporizer -- Lent, 1522: The dramatic affair of the sausages -- Final attempts at conciliation: The rupture -- Part Three: The Protestant revolution -- Abandonment of ancient practices -- End of chapter and cloisters -- From mass to Lord's Supper. Part Four: The theological thought of Zwingli -- A book for France: The de vera et falsa religione -- Doctrine of God and of man: origin and nature of religion: the Christ -- Gospel and penitence: law and sin -- The power of the keys -- the church: the idea of the sacrament: baptism and the Lord's Supper -- Confession, marriage, monastic vows, invocation of saints, images, merit, prayer, and purgatory -- Temporal authority -- Part Five: Divergence of the ways -- Rupture with Erasmus -- The Anabaptist drama -- Opposition of the Catholic cantons: conversations with Rome -- The Baden disputation -- Local opposition crushed -- Scholar and family man. Part Six: The development of the Reformation -- The matrimonial tribunal: formation of the new clergy -- The Berne disputation (1528) -- Organization of the church: development of state discipline -- The first war of Cappel (1529) -- Part Seven: The Eucharistic controversy -- Luther -- Preliminaries of the quarrel -- Zurich against Wittenberg -- The Strasburg mediators and Philip of Hesse -- Arrival at Marburg: the de providentia dei -- The colloquy -- Part Eight: Last struggles -- Projects of alliance: Venice and France -- In the shadow of the Diet of Augsburg -- The royal writings -- Switzerland under the shadow of anxiety and suspicion -- On the battlefield (1531).