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BARTHOLOMEUS SOCINUS . Marianits Socinus * left at his death several children , of whom Bar ~ tholomeus pursued the legal profession , and was deemed to have equalled or surpassed his father in his erudition , and his celebrity as a jurist . The precise date of his birth is not known , different authorities assigning it variously to the years 1433 , 1436 and 143 ? .
His early education was conducted with the utmost care , and he was solidly grounded in the knowledge of the Greek and Latin languages . After he had passed , with much applause , through the usual course of elementary instruction , he applied with great diligence and success to the study of the civil and the canon laws under the ablest masters of the age . He first studied at Siena under his father and Thomas Dociius : he afterwards placed himself
under the tuition of Alexander Tartagonus and Andrew Ballatms , at the University of Bologna ; whence he removed to the Academy of Pisa to avail himself of the instruction of Francis A retinus . His progress and attain T merits under these celebrated professors were rapid , brilliant , and profound . He returned to Siena to take his Doctors' degree , and it would appear that he commenced his professional career in his native University , where he was Professor of Canon Law in the year 1471 .
The distressed situation of Florence at this period having caused the University of that city to be nearly deserted by the students , Lorenzo de Medicis directed his attention to the improvement of the Academy of Pisa , which had recently fallen under the dominion of the Florentines ; and he invited to the chairs of the different faculties the most eminent men in each wtych Italy could furnish . In the number of these was Bartholomeus Socinus , who was appointed to the professorship of Civil , and afterwards of the Canon Law , with the liberal stipend of eight hundred florins a year .
The assembling together in one institution of so many men of distinguished talents and erudition in the various branches of literature and science , at a time when learning was comparatively a rare accomplishment , soon produced consequences upon which it is prpbable that Lorenzo had little calculated . A spirit of jealousy and rivalry soon sprung up among the professors , and led to dissensions that required all his discretion and authority to allay . Bartholomeus Socinus took umbrage , on this occasion , at the
appointment of Jason Maynus to be his associate in the same faculty , with an equal salary . He embraced every opportunity to disparage his talents 1 It * 1 fl 1 1 1 I T and acquirements , and to bring them to the test by provoking him to public disputations on points connected with their professional studies . The celebrity of the men gave great interest to these contests , and drew to them crowds of auditors . So much did they at last engage the public attention and curiosity , that Lorenzo himself went purposely from Florence to Pisa in
order to be personally present to hear the parties . It is related , that in one of these public disputations , Janus , being hard pressed by his opponent , and unable to repel his arguments by legitimate reasons , resorted to the stratagem of feigning a text or fictitious authority , which he advanced to strengthen his case . Bartholomeus instantly detecting the artifice , feigned a counter authority to destroy it , which he enforced by a suitable commentary . Janus , astounded by the promptness and the force of the reply , demanded where i _ . _ .
* See above , p . 23 .
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MEMOIRS OF THE SOCIN 1 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1827, page 188, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1794/page/28/
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