A native of Lucca and a Dominican, he arrived in Basel in 1544 as a disciple of the reformer Pietro Martire Vermigli and with the help of Pietro Carnesecchi. ###>== Biographie ==Originaire de Lucques, protestant disciple de Pietro Martire Vermigli, Pietro Perna s'installe à Bâle en 1542 comme assistant de Johannes Oporinus.