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BLANDRATA, or BIANDRATA, GIORGIO (c. 1515-1588)  , See also:Italian physician and polemic, who came of the De Blandrate See also:family, powerful from the See also:early See also:part of the 13th See also:century, was See also:born at See also:Saluzzo, the youngest son of Bernardino See also:Blandrata . He graduated in arts and See also:medicine at See also:Montpellier in 1533, and specialized in the functional and See also:nervous disorders of See also:women . In 1544 he made his first acquaintance with Transylvania; in 1553 he was with See also:Alciati in the See also:Grisons; in 1557 he spent a See also:year at See also:Geneva, in See also:constant intercourse with See also:Calvin, who distrusted him . He attended the See also:English wife (Jane See also:Stafford) of See also:Count Celso Massimiliano Martinengo, preacher of the Italian See also:church at Geneva, and fostered See also:anti-trinitarian opinions in that church . In 1558 he found it expedient to remove to See also:Poland, where he became a See also:leader of the heretical party at the synods of Pinczow (1558) and Ksionzh (156o and 1562) . His point was the suppression of extremes of See also:opinion, on the basis of a See also:confession literally See also:drawn from Scripture . He obtained the position of See also:court physician to the See also:queen See also:dowager, the Milanese See also:Bona See also:Sforza . She had been instrumental in the burning (1539) of Catharine Weygel, at the See also:age of eighty, for anti-trinitarian opinions; but the writings of See also:Ochino had altered her views, which were now anti-See also:Catholic . In 1563 Blandrata transferred his services to the Transylvanian court, where the daughters of his patroness were married to ruling princes . He revisited Poland (1576) in the See also:train of See also:Stephen See also:Bathory, whose tolerance permitted the See also:propagation of heresies; and when (1579) See also:Christopher Bathory introduced the See also:Jesuits into Transylvania, Blandrata found means of conciliating them . Throughout his career he was accompanied by his two See also:brothers, Ludovico and See also:Alphonso, the former being See also:canon of Saluzzo . In Transylvania, Blandrata co-operated with See also:Francis See also:David (d .

1579), the antitrinitarian See also:

bishop, but in 1578 two circumstances See also:broke the connexion . Blandrata was charged with "Italian See also:vice "; David renounced the See also:worship of See also:Christ . To See also:influence David, Blandrata sent for Faustus See also:Socinus from See also:Basel . Socinus was David's See also:guest, but the discussion between them led to no result . At the instance of Blandrata, David was tried and condemned to See also:prison at See also:Deva (in which he died) on the See also:charge of innovation . Having amassed a See also:fortune, Blandrata returned to the communion of See also:Rome . His end is obscure . According to the Jesuit, See also:Jacob Wujek, he was strangled by a See also:nephew (Giorgio, son of Alphonso) in May 1588 . He published a few polemical writings, some in See also:conjunction with David . See Malacarne, Commentario delle Opere e delle Vicende di G . Biandrata (Padova, 1814) ; See also:Wallace, Anti-trinitarian See also:Biography, vol. ii . (185o) .

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