Fausto Sozzini
(1539-1604)

man

Died aged 64

Fausto Paolo Sozzini, also known as Faustus Socinus (Polish: Faust Socyn; 5 December 1539 – 4 March 1604), was an Italian theologian and, alongside his uncle Lelio Sozzini, founder of the Non-trinitarian Christian belief system known as Socinianism. His doctrine was developed among the Polish Brethren in the Polish Reformed Church during the 16th and 17th centuries and embraced by the Unitarian Church of Transylvania during the same period. His 1570 treatise De auctoritate scripturae sacrae (published in English in 1732, as A demonstration of the truth of the Christian religion, from the Latin of Socinius) was highly influential on Remonstrant thinkers such as Simon Episcopius, who drew on Sozzini's arguments for viewing the scriptures as historical texts.

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Commemorated on 2 plaques

Lelio e Fausto Socino [full inscription unknown]

English translation: Socino Brothers [AWS Translate]

Via di Pantaneto, Siena, Italy where they was

Nella prima meta del sedicesimo secolo nacquero in quests casa Lelio e Fausto Sozzini. Letterati insigni, folisofi sommi, della liberta di pensiero strenui propugnatori. Contro il sopranatturale vindici Della umana ragione fondarono la celebre scuala sociniana precorrendo di the secolo let dottrine del moderno razionalismo

English translation: In the first half of the sixteenth century, Lelio and Fausto Sozzini were born in this house. Distinguished writers, supreme philosophers, and staunch proponents of freedom of thought. Against the supernatural vindici of human reason they founded the famous Socinian scuala, ahead of the century let doctrines of modern rationalism [AWS Translate]

Via di Pantaneto, Siena, Italy where they was born (1539)