Celso Sozzini (1517–1570) was an Italian freethinker, brother of Alessandro (father of Fausto), Lelio, Cornelio, Dario, and Camillo.
Celso's father Mariano Sozzini il giovane (1482–1556) had eleven sons and two daughters. Alessandro, father of Fausto Sozzini, was the eldest but died young.
Celso first taught in Siena, and was founder of the short-lived Accademia del Sizienti (1554) of Bologna, of which young Fausto was a member.
References
- Giampaolo Zucchini Celso e Camillo Sozzini nel gruppo ereticale familiare : Nuovi documenti in Svizzera, 1561-1570 Bologna 1981.
- Borgo Scopeto Archived 2010-06-09 at the Wayback Machine "At the beginning of the 4th century some members of the Sozzini were already participating in the magistrature of the Sienese Republic, but it is only towards the end of the 15th century and during the 16th that Cornelio, Dario, Lelio, Camillo and Fausto assembled, with great enthusiasm, the theses for reform which spread throughout many scholarly academies."
- Paul F. Grendler The universities of the Italian Renaissance 2002 section "4 1.123 Celso Sozzini (1517-70) initially taught at Siena..."
- Accademia dei Sizienti di Bologna, v. Sbaragli L. XLIX, 1942, pp.
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