Cornelio Sozzini Explained
Cornelio Sozzini (died c. 1586) was an Italian humanist and early Unitarian.[1] [2] He was one of the sons of the law professor Lelio Sozzini.[3] [4] [5]
Cornelio was raised mostly in Padua where his father Marcantonio Sozzini, or Mariano Sozzini, was a law professor. With his brother Lelio Sozzini he spent most of his adult life in Bologna, eventually leaving since "heretics" were safer in Switzerland.[6]
Notes and References
- Aldo Stella, Dall’anabattismo al socinianesimo nel Cinquecento veneto, Liviana, Padova 1967
- Michaela Valente, I Sozzini e l’Inquisizione, in Lech Szczucki, Faustus Socinus and his Heritage, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków 2005, pp. 29-51
- Bullettino senese di storia patria 1972 - Page 144 "... l'epigrafe in marmo collocata nell'antico palazzo dei Sozzini in Siena; i medaglioni di Lelio e Fausto sotto la « loggia ... Risulta infatti che Cornelio Sozzini fu catturato il 24 giugno 1571 dal Bargello senese, alle cinque del mattino, proprio ..."
- Aldo Stella, “Ricerche sul socianesimo: Il processo di Cornelio Sozzini e Claudio Textor (Bannière),” BSSV 3 (1961): 77–120.
- The City and the Senses: Urban Culture Since 1500 Dr Alexander Cowan, Dr Jill Steward - 2013 "An extraordinary document suggests that the problem had worsened by the cut off point of this study, the devastating plague of 1575. Imprisoned for insolvency, the known Sienese heretic Cornelio Sozzini, in desperation, presented a new solution ..."
- Jane K. Wickersham Rituals of Prosecution: The Roman Inquisition and the ... 2012 p.175 "The Sozzini, a family of jurists and law professors, had originated in Siena, although Lelio and Cornelio, sons of the famous Marcantonio, had been raised mostly in Padua where Marcantonio was a law professor. The two brothers spent most of their adult lives in Bologna. Eventually they would move to the Swiss Cantons, particularly Geneva and Zurich; their nephew, Fausto, then would move on to Poland and utilizing his uncle's writings found the.."
