Blandrata

Blandrata, GIORGIO, properly BIANDRATA, the founder of Unitarianism in Poland and Transylvania, was born of a noble family at Saluzzo, in Piedmont, about 1515. The freedom of his religious opinions compelled him to flee to Geneva in 1556, where he remained till Calvin's displeasure at his anti-trinitarianism drove him to Poland for liberty of thought and speech. Finally, in 1563, he betook himself to the court of John Sigismund, Prince of Transylvania, whose favourite physician he became. Here he exerted himself with as much prudence as assiduity to spread his doctrines, and succeeded in forming a considerable party. He died about 1590, strangled, so it was said, by his nephew, as he slept.