Celio Secondo Curione

Celio Secondo Curione
Born1 May 1503
Died24 November 1569(1569-11-24) (aged 66)

Celio Secondo Curione (1 May 1503, in Cirié – 24 November 1569, in Basel) (usual Latin form Caelius Secundus Curio) was an Italian humanist, grammarian, editor and historian, who exercised a considerable influence upon the Italian Reformation.[1] A teacher in Humanities, university professor and preceptor to the nobility, he had a lively and colourful career, moving frequently between states to avoid denunciation and imprisonment: he was successively at Turin, Milan, Pavia, Venice and Lucca, before becoming a religious exile in Switzerland, first at Lausanne and finally at Basel, where he settled. He was famous and admired as a publisher and editor of works of theology and history, also for his own writings and teachings, and for the wide sphere of his friendships and correspondence with many of the most interesting reformists, Protestants and heretics of his time, though his energetic influence was at times disruptive.[2] The imputation of antitrinitarianism is very doubtful.[3] Curio published under the Latin form of his name, but scholarship has adopted the Italian form.

  1. ^ M. Kutter, Celio Secondo Curione. Leben und Werk (1503–1569) (Helbing and Lichtenhahn, Basel and Stuttgart 1955).
  2. ^ His first biography is by Giovanni Nicolò Stupano, Oratio Panegyrica de Coelio Secundo Curione, given at Basel in 1570 and published in J.G. Schelhorn, Amoenitates Literariae (Daniel Bartholomæi et Filium, Francofurti et Lipsiæ 1730–1731), XIV, pp. 325-402. For an English abstract of this, see R.S., 'Italian Reformation. Select Memoirs of Italian Reformation Confessors, No. 4: Coelius Secundus Curio', The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, No. CCVII, Vol. XVIII (March 1823), pp. 129-33.
  3. ^ Stupano, Oratio Panegyrica de Coelio Secundo Curione, pp. 386 ff.