The Rise of Neo-Stoicism in the 16th Century

The sixteenth century was a turbulent time in northern Europe. People might have been interested in stoicism because it offered some consolation for adversity. The determinists who believed that the divine, providential oversight of universe predestines everything to happen by a kind of inevitable fate resonated well with what protestants were saying. So i'm not sure whether calvin's interest in predestination was closely drawing on stoic ideas. There's a sense in which those issues were so much in the air during this period, it actually made it quite difficult for people interested in Stoicism.