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Alciati Alciati is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Andrea Alciato, or Alciati (1492–1550) (Andreas Alciatus), Italian jurist * Dr. Gian Paolo Alciati della Motta (1515–1573) Italian Calvinist * Francesco Alciati (1522–1 ...

Dr. Giovanni Paolo Alciati della Motta (1515 in

Savigliano Savigliano (Savijan in Piedmontese) is a ''comune'' of Piedmont, northern Italy, in the Province of Cuneo, about south of Turin by rail. It is home to ironworks, foundries, locomotive works (once owned by Fiat Ferroviaria, now by Alstom) and s ...

– 1573) was an Italian Calvinist and friend of

Giorgio Biandrata Giorgio Biandrata or Blandrata (15155 May 1588) was an Italian-born Transylvanian physician and polemicist, who came of the De Biandrate family, powerful from the early part of the 13th century. He was a Unitarian. Biandrata was born at Saluzzo, ...

and

Giovanni Valentino Gentile Giovanni Valentino Gentile (c.1520 in Scigliano – 10 September 1566 in Bern) was an Italian humanist and non-trinitarian. As a young man he was influenced by Giorgio Siculo's teaching against paedobaptism and transubstantiation. In Naples ...

, one of the participants of the

antitrinitarian Nontrinitarianism is a form of Christianity that rejects the mainstream Christian doctrine of the Trinity—the belief that God is three distinct hypostases or persons who are coeternal, coequal, and indivisibly united in one being, or essence ...

Council of Venice The Council of Veneto or Synod at Venice 1550 was a meeting in Venice of the anabaptist radicals of Northern Italy. History The Council had been preceded by the antitrinitarian ''Collegia Vicentina'' (Lat. ''Vicenza colloquia'') in Vicenza in whi ...

in 1550. Like Biandrata and Negri he moved to in Poland.The Oxford encyclopedia of the Reformation: Volume 2 Hans J. Hillerbrand - 1996 ".community in Pinczow that included himself and Biandrata, plus Alciati and Francesco Negri (1500- 1563)."

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Alciati, Giovanni Paolo 1515 births 1573 deaths Italian Protestants