Lelio Sozzini, Italian Protestant theologian (born 1525)

Lelio Sozzini

Italian theologian and co-founder of Socinianism (1525–1562)

Lelio Francesco Maria Sozzini, often known in English by his Latinized name Laelius Socinus, was an Italian Renaissance humanist and theologian, and, alongside his nephew Fausto Sozzini, founder of the Nontrinitarian Christian belief system known as Socinianism. His doctrine was…