Matteo Gribaldi Mofa (c. 1505 in

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– September 1564, in

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) was an Italian legal scholar who became an

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and defender of

Michael Servetus Michael Servetus (; es, Miguel Serveto as real name; french: Michel Servet; also known as ''Miguel Servet'', ''Miguel de Villanueva'', ''Revés'', or ''Michel de Villeneuve''; 29 September 1509 or 1511 – 27 October 1553) was a Spanish th ...

. He was instrumental in the spread of

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to Poland through his Polish students in Italy including Piotr of Goniądz, and in Germany the pole Michał Zaleski, as well as on Italian exiles in Geneva who later traveled to Poland and Transylvania such as

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, and

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. He wrote a popular educational work on the way to study law, reprinted many times: De methodo ac ratione studendi libri tres (Lugduni, apud A. Vincentium, 1541).

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lived with Matteo Gribaldi in Padua for two months during the autumn of 1553.Knijff, Philip. ''Bibliographia Sociniana'' Amsterdam, Hilversum, 2004 p.12

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gribaldi, Matteo 1505 births 1564 deaths Italian Unitarians 16th-century Italian jurists