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Celio Secondo CurioneItalian Protestant
Date of Birth: 01.01.1503
Country:  Italy |
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Celio Secondo Curione
Early Life and Religious ConversionCelio Secondo Curione was an Italian Protestant who renounced Catholicism and faced imprisonment for his beliefs. He escaped from both a monastery and a prison in Turin.
Academic Career
Curione spent three years as a professor at the University of Pavia, where his students protected him from the Inquisition. After being forced to flee, he lectured in Lucca and eventually settled in Switzerland in 1543. He was appointed head of the Lausanne Academy. From 1547, he taught as a professor in Basel.
Major Works
Curione's most significant work was "Christianae religionis institutio" (1549), which avoided any mention of the Trinity, leading to his classification as an anti-Trinitarian. His other notable book, "De amplitudine beati regni Dei libri duo" (1554), argued for the number of the elect surpassing the number of the damned. This view generated controversy, as did his belief in the possibility of salvation for those who had never heard the gospel.
Criticisms of the Catholic Church
Curione penned a renowned pamphlet, "Pasquilli ecstatici," which vehemently criticized the Roman Catholic Church. It was widely translated and distributed without revealing its author or place of publication.
