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GIOVANNI See also:DIODATI (1576-1649) , Swiss See also:Protestant divine, was See also:born at See also:Geneva on the 6th of See also:June 1576, of a See also:noble See also:family originally belonging to See also:Lucca, which had been expatriated on See also:account of its Protestantism . At the See also:age of twenty-one he was nominated See also:professor of See also:Hebrew at Geneva on the recommendation of Theodor See also:Beza . In 16o6 he became professor of See also:theology, in 16o8 pastor, or See also:parish See also:minister, at Geneva, and in the following See also:year he succeeded Beza as professor of theology . As a preacher he was eloquent, bold and fearless . He held a high See also:place among the reformers of Geneva, by whom he was sent on a See also:mission to See also:France in 1614 . He had previously visited See also:Italy, and made the acquaintance of See also:Paolo See also:Sarpi, whom he endeavoured unsuccessfully to engage in a See also:reformation See also:movement . In 1618-1619 he attended the See also:synod of See also:Dort, and took a prominent See also:part in its deliberations, being one of the six divines appointed to draw up the account of its proceedings . He was a thorough Calvinist, and entirely sympathized with the condemnation of the Arminians . In 1645 he resigned his professorship, and died at Geneva or. the 3rd of See also:October 1649 . See also:Diodati is chiefly famous as the author of the See also:translation of the See also:Bible into See also:Italian (1603, edited with notes, 1607) . He also undertook a translation of the Bible into See also:French, which appeared with notes in 1644 . Among his other See also:works are his Annotationes in Biblia (1607), of which an See also:English translation (Pious and Learned Annotations upon the See also:Holy Bible) was published in See also:London in 1648, and various polemical See also:treatises, such as De fictitio Pontificiorum Purgatorio (1619); De justa See also:secession Reformatorum ab See also:Ecclesia See also:Romana (1628); De Antichristo, &c . He also published French See also:translations of Sarpi's See also:History of the See also:Council of See also:Trent, and of See also:Edwin See also:Sandys's Account of the See also:State of See also:Religion in the See also:West . |
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