Francesco Negri (Antitrinitarian)

Francesco Negri (1500 in Bassano – 1563) was an Italian Protestant reformer and exile in Switzerland, then Poland. He was first a Benedictine at the Monastery of Santa Giustina in Padua then in 1525 left for Germany.[1] He was then Calvinist, finally an Antitrinitarian.[2] His drama The Free Will 1546.

References
  1. Opere, documenti e testimonianze di Camillo Renato, Antonio Rotondò - 1968 "Francesco Negri (1500-1563). Nativo di Bassano e awiatosi dapprima a studi umanistici, nel 1521 entró nell'ordine dei Benedettini. Nel 1525 lasciô il convento di Santa Giustina in Padova e andó in Germania, forse ad Augusta."
  2. Oxford encyclopedia of the Reformation: Volume 2 Hans J. Hillerbrand - 1996 ... after his escape he traveled to join Biandrata in 1562 in Poland, where he became a member of a small Italian antitrinitarian community in Pinczow that included himself and Biandrata plus Alciati and Francesco Negri (1500-1563).
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