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MABIANUS SOCINtfS , THE Y 6 UNGER . This celebrated jurist was the grandson of the elder Marianus , * by his son Alexander , < and Laura Aringleria . Of Alexander Socinus little is known . It is probable that he lived as a private gentleman at Siena , where his son Marianus was born on the 8 th of April , 1482 . While a child he was sickly and weak , and at the age of thirteen had nearly lost his life by the
plague , which was then ravaging Italy . He unexpectedly recovered in consequence of opening the plague tumour under one of his arms . The charge of his early education was entrusted to masters of the first reputation in their respective departments . He studied the classical languages under Angelus Fundus . His legal studies he commenced under the most eminent professors in the university of his native city , whom he attended for six years : he then removed to Bologna to place himself under the instruction of his uncle
Bartholomeus . When Bartholomew was obliged to relinquish his professorship , in consequence of losing his voice , Marianus accompanied him to Siena , where , at the age of twenty-one , he was admitted to the degree of Doctor of Civil and Canon Law . As soon as he had graduated he was appointed one of the professors of Civil and Ecclesiastical Law , and continued to discharge the duties of his office with high and increasing reputation for about fourteen years . In the year 1517 he removed to Pisa , being engaged
to fill one of the law chairs in the university of that city , with a very liberal salary . Having passed seven years in this situation , he again returned to Siena . His countrymen shortly after evinced , in a very honourable way , their high esteem for his character by appointing him to two important embassies ; the first to the Republic of Florence ; the second to Pope Leo the Tenth , to convey to him their thanks for the elevation of two of their fellow-citizens to the rank of Cardinals .
After residing one year at Siena , Marianus removed to Padua , to be one of the law professors , and maintained here by his learning and talents the high professional reputation of his family . The celebrated Andrew Alciatus having accepted an invitation to fill the first law chair at Pavia , Marianus was chosen to succeed him in the vacant chair at Bologna . The munificent liberality with which his services were here rewarded , induced him to reject
all the flattering offers which his high fame procured for him to settle in other universities . Cosmo , Grand Duke of Tuscany , endeavoured to draw him to Pisa by the offer of a salary of eight hundred florins . The King of Portugal was very desirous to engage him for the University of Coimbra , ttta salary of 3000 florins ; and the Republic of Ragusa proposed to give him 2000 florins , to aid them in revising and settling their municipal laws . The Venetians , also , Hercules the Second , Duke of Ferrara , and his own
countrymen were equajly ^ anxious to g ive their universities the benefit of his high talents and distinguished erudition . But his entire satisfaction with his situation at Bologna rendered him inflexible against all persuasions . In consequence of this steady adherence to their interests , the Bolognese conferred the freedom of their city on himself and two of his sons , and appointed his son Laelius Socinus to an 'honourable judicial office , which , however , he shortly after relinquished . Marianus married at an early age Camilla , the daughter of Paul Salvetta , See al > ove ,. p . 23 . t Nrtd . p . 188 .
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MEMOIRS OF THE SOCINI .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1827, page 422, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1797/page/30/
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