Camillo Renato
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Paolo Ricci was a former Franciscan, then Anabaptist and Antitrinitarian. He also adopted an academic pseudeonym Lisia Fileno (Latin: Lysias Paulus Riccius Philaenus), Fileno Lunardi, and finally the baptismal name Camillo Renato.
In Bologna Ricci was tutor to the three sons of Giulio Danesi - to whom he dedicated three Latin carmina. And in Bologna Ricci first effected a Latin pseudonym, Lysias Philaenus, as was common among those attended and intellectual circles, where art, religion and moral philosophy were discussed. He himself gives the names of the participants in Bologna: humanists Leandro Alberti
, Romulus Amasea and Achille Bocchi, and the noblemen Francesco Bolognetti, Giulio Danesi, Cornelio Lambertini, and Alessandro Manzoli.
In 1540 he was forced to recant some ideas in Modena
, but Ricci became progressively more radical, developing ideas beyond what was published in his 1540 Apologia in his born name.
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With "Il Tiziano" he was influential in obtaining anti-trinitarian resolutions at the Anabaptist Council of Venice
, 1550.
He died in Caspano, Civo
, c.1575.
Paolo Lysias Philaenus Ricci
He was born Paolo Ricci and became a Franciscan. In the 1530s he frequented circles sympathetic to the Reformation in Naples, then moved to Padua and Venice where, among other things, he challenged the existence of purgatory. Ricci writes: "some slanderers accused me of heresy, I was detained, prosecuted, not convicted, not condemned, did not abjure on any matter and was discharged." Emerging free from this trial, towards the end of 1538 went from Venice to Bologna, with the intention to go later in Rome for "consult with some very learned and reverend cardinals to the glory of Christ and for harmony and common interest of all the Church. "In Bologna Ricci was tutor to the three sons of Giulio Danesi - to whom he dedicated three Latin carmina. And in Bologna Ricci first effected a Latin pseudonym, Lysias Philaenus, as was common among those attended and intellectual circles, where art, religion and moral philosophy were discussed. He himself gives the names of the participants in Bologna: humanists Leandro Alberti
Leandro Alberti
Leandro Alberti was an Italian Dominican historian.Alberti was born and died at Bologna. In his early youth he attracted the attention of the Bolognese rhetorician, Giovanni Garzo, who volunteered to act as his tutor...
, Romulus Amasea and Achille Bocchi, and the noblemen Francesco Bolognetti, Giulio Danesi, Cornelio Lambertini, and Alessandro Manzoli.
In 1540 he was forced to recant some ideas in Modena
Modena
Modena is a city and comune on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy....
, but Ricci became progressively more radical, developing ideas beyond what was published in his 1540 Apologia in his born name.
The baptism of 'Camillo the Reborn'
In 1541 or 1542 he was baptized and adopted the name Camillo Renato (Camillo the Reborn) as an expression of his break with his previous infant Christening, and in 1542 arrested for heresy in Ferrara, but released on the intervention of Duchess Renée de France and moved to exile in Switzerland with Celio Secondo CurioneCelio Secondo Curione
Celio Secondo Curione was an Italian humanist, grammarian and suspected antitrinitarian.thumb|160px|Celio Secondo Curione-Works :* Pasquillus ecstaticus et Marphorius. Basel, 1544....
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With "Il Tiziano" he was influential in obtaining anti-trinitarian resolutions at the Anabaptist Council of Venice
Council of Venice
The concilio di Veneto or sinodo a Venezia 1550 was a meeting in Venice of the anabaptist radicals of Northern Italy.It had been preceded by the antitrinitarian Collegia Vicentina The concilio di Veneto or sinodo a Venezia 1550 was a meeting in Venice of the anabaptist radicals of Northern Italy.It...
, 1550.
He died in Caspano, Civo
Civo
Civo is a comune in the Province of Sondrio in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 60 Miles northeast of Milan and about 15 Miles west of Sondrio...
, c.1575.
Works
- Correspondence to Heinrich BullingerHeinrich BullingerHeinrich Bullinger was a Swiss reformer, the successor of Huldrych Zwingli as head of the Zurich church and pastor at Grossmünster...
, in «Bullingers Korrespondenz mit den Graubündnern», Basel 1904-1905 - Carmina, Codex. 52. II. 1, University Library, Bologna c.1538?
- Apologia Lysiae Pauli Riccii Philaeni Siculi nomine haereseos detenti Hercule II Duce III foeliciter imperante anno 1540, in MS B 1928, Archiginnasio Library, Bologna
- Miscellaneous items, in ms. B. 1859, Archiginnasio Library, Bologna
- Treaty concerning baptism and of the Holy Supper, in ms. A. 93. 13, Burgerbibliothek, Bern
- Certa in Symbolum professio ad Fridericum Salicem virum optimum, 1547
- In Johannem Calvinum de injusto Michaelis Serveti incendio, Traona 1554
- Works. Documents and testimonies - Opere. Documenti e testimonianze, edited Antonio Rotondò, Firenze-Chicago 1968