Giovanni Valentino Gentile
Giovanni Valentino Gentile (c.1520 in Scigliano – 10 September 1566 in Bern) was an Italian humanist and non-trinitarian.[1]
As a young man he was influenced by
Waldensian teachings, and those of Juan de Valdés, and was part of the Accademia Cosentina
.
In 1546 he took part in the
Jean Calvin. On May 18, 1558 Calvin required all the Italian exiles in Geneva to affirm a Trinitarian statement, which Gentile first refused to sign, but then following the others, did so. At this period the Italian exiles in Geneva were forming the idea of Christ as a person subordinate to God, the Father, and of the Holy Spirit as simply God's power. In June Gentile and Nicola Gallo were denounced and tried for heresy and blasphemy by Calvin himself[5]
with the result that Gentile was sentenced to beheading. The charge was commuted when Gentile agreed to go through the city barefoot in a shirt, the heralds ahead of him, recanting his heresy, and to burn his own writings. The bailiff of Bern he managed to incense by dedicating a booklet to him.
Gentile and
Théodore de Bèze and Heinrich Bullinger
urged the bailiff to take the strictest sentence. He was executed 10 September 1566.
References
- ^ www.eresie.it - Gentile, Giovanni Valentino (1520-1566)
- ^ eresie.it Giorgio Siculo
- ^ Merenda
- ^ - Merenda, Apollonio (m. dopo 1566)
- ^ Paul Helm, John Calvin's Ideas 2006 p41
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