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See also: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
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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
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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
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He attended the See also:English wife (Jane See also:Stafford) of See also:Count Celso Massimiliano Martinengo, preacher of the Italian See also: 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) . (A . Go . |
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