About Celso Sozzini
Lived 1517 – 1570 (aged 52–53). Celso Sozzini was a jurist and university teacher.
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.
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Who was Celso Sozzini?
Italian freethinker
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Celso Sozzini was born in 1517 in Siena.
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Celso Sozzini died on 12 March 1570 in Siena.
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Celso Sozzini was a jurist and university teacher.
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