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| '''Sozzini |
'''Sozzini''' is an ] ] family originally from ] in ], where the family were noted as bankers and merchants, jurists and ] scholars. The family has been described as "the most famous legal dynasty of the ]."<ref>Paul F. Grendler, "Siena and the Sozzini," in ''The Universities of the Italian Renaissance'', JHU Press, 2011, {{ISBN|1421404230}}, p. 461</ref> | ||
| ==Mariano Sozzini== | ==Mariano Sozzini== | ||
| The family in Italy includes the jurist ], his sons including ], ], ] and the theologian ] and his nephew ], for whom ] is named. | The family in Italy includes the jurist ], his sons including ], ], ] and the theologian ] and his nephew ], for whom ] is named. | ||
| The family ruled Siena from 1050 - 1345 where they became bankrupt after several unsecured loans to the King Edward 3 of England to pay for the Hundred Years War. | |||
| ==Basel branch== | |||
| A branch of the Sozzini family left Siena around 1413 during the ] disputes, and settled in ], then a subject of ], now part of Italian-speaking Switzerland. The Sozzini family was banished from Bellinzona in 1555 as part of a group of around 150 ], after they declined to return to Catholicism, and came as religious refugees to ].<ref>http://www.altbasel.ch/dossier/august-socin.html</ref>] | |||
| In Basel, the family eventually started using the spelling ''Socin'' and became wealthy merchants, notably in the paper industry and as printers, and one of the most highly regarded ] families of Basel from the 16th century. Family members served as Mayor and members of the ], as diplomats, judges and other officials.<ref>Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens: AGB, Walter de Gruyter, 1999, p. 337</ref> While resident in Bellinzona in 1551, the family received a confirmation of ] from the ].<ref>Markus Lutz, ''Baslerisches Bürger-Buch: Enthaltend alle gegenwärtig in der Stadt Basel eingebürgte Geschlechter, nebst der Anzeige ihres Ursprungs, Bürgerrechts-Aufnahme, so wie ihrer ersten Ansiedler und beachtenswerthen Personen, welche aus denselben zum Dienste des Staats, der Kirche und der Wissenschaften, hervorgegangen sind: nach alphabetischer Ordnung mit eingestreuten historischen Notizen und lythographischen Wappen-Tafeln'', 1819, p. 308.</ref> | |||
| <gallery widths=220px heights=220px> | |||
| File:Abel Socin (1581-1638).jpg|Abel Socin (1581–1638), cloth merchant and judge in Basel | |||
| File:Emanuel Socin, mayor of Basel.jpeg|Emanuel Socin (1628–1717), burgomaster of ] | |||
| File:Earrings of Maria Hummel married Socin (1635-1681).jpg|Earrings belonging to Maria Hummel (1635–1681), married to Basel judge, grand councillor and envoy to the French court ] (1632–1695) | |||
| </gallery> | |||
| ==Coat of arms== | |||
| The coat of arms, a black lion ramping in a white field, with a red ball close to the uplifted claw, is known since the early 14th century when it was used by the notary Ser Mino Sozzi (died 1340).<ref>''The Theological Review'' Vol. 16 p. 297, 1879</ref> | |||
| ==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 21:27, 10 August 2017
Sozzini is an Italian noble family originally from Siena in Tuscany, where the family were noted as bankers and merchants, jurists and humanist scholars. The family has been described as "the most famous legal dynasty of the Renaissance."
Mariano Sozzini
The family in Italy includes the jurist Mariano Sozzini, his sons including Celso, Cornelio, Camillo and the theologian Lelio Sozzini and his nephew Fausto Sozzini, for whom Socinianism is named.
The family ruled Siena from 1050 - 1345 where they became bankrupt after several unsecured loans to the King Edward 3 of England to pay for the Hundred Years War.
References
- Paul F. Grendler, "Siena and the Sozzini," in The Universities of the Italian Renaissance, JHU Press, 2011, ISBN 1421404230, p. 461
External links
Media related to House of Sozzini at Wikimedia Commons
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