Francesco Lismanini

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Francesco Lismanini (* around 1504 in Corfu ; † April 1566 in Königsberg ) was an Italian reformer in the Kingdom of Poland .

Live and act

Lismanini was born to Greek parents in Corfu, which was then part of Venice . He grew up in Italy and came to Krakow, Poland , in 1515 . He entered the Franciscan Order in 1525 and became its Provincial in 1538 . He probably studied theology in Padua , where he received his doctorate in 1540. In 1545 he went to Poland as court preacher and confessor to Queen Bona Sforza . In Kraków he belonged to the humanist circle of Andreas Fricius Modrzewski, Bernhard Wojewodka, Andreas Trzecieski, Jakob Przyluski and Iwan Karninski, and even at this time he was inclined towards Reformation thinking and belief.

On the recommendation of the Polish King Sigismund II August , Lismanini went on a trip to Europe from 1553 to 1556 to get books for his library. He first visited Moravia , Padua, Milan , Lyon and Paris . In Switzerland he was in Geneva and Zurich , where he met the reformers Johannes Calvin , Heinrich Bullinger , Johannes Wolph , Rudolf Gwalther , Theodor Bibliander and Konrad Pellikan and Italian preachers like Bernardino Ochino and Lelio Sozzini . In Strasbourg he met Peter Martyr Vermigli , Girolamo Zanchi and Johannes Sturm . In Stuttgart he held talks with Christoph von Württemberg , Pietro Paolo Vergerio and Johannes Brenz . He returned to Poland married to Claudia and a staunch Calvinist .

Lismanini lived in Pińczów from 1556 , with Gregor Pawel he worked as a reformer in Lesser Poland. He also tried with Johannes a Lasco to unite the various currents in Polish Protestantism . But Lasco suspected him of Lutheran inclinations and increasingly ousted him. With the militant anti-Trinitarian Francesco Stancaro he had serious arguments, which is why he also wrote the book Brevis Explicatio on the Trinity. Since 1557 he was toying with a service with Duke Albrecht of Prussia , and in 1563 he finally became his advisor in Königsberg, where he died in 1566.

Works

Lismanini defended the Holy Trinity in his work Brevis Explicatio , which was printed in Königsberg in 1565 . He stood behind the early church confessions such as the Apostolicum , Nicäno-Konstantinopolitanum and Athanasianum . In some cases he quoted extensively church fathers such as Basil the Great , Gregory of Nazianzen , Augustine and Thomas Aquinas , all of whom had represented the Trinity. But he also described the then current anti-Trinitarian dispute in Lesser Poland including letters from Felix Cruciger in 1555 and to Heinrich Bullinger in 1561, synodal minutes and the creed of August 20, 1562 by Pinczow.

  • Brevis Explicatio Doctrinae De Sanctissima Trinitate (German: Brief Explanation of the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity ), Königsberg 1565, dedicated to King Sigismund II. ( Digitized in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Digital Library)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irene Dingel and Kestutis Daugirdas: Antitrinitarian Disputes: The Tritheistic Phase (1560–1568), Theological Controversies 1548-1577 / 80 , Controversia et Confessio, Volume 9, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-647-56015- 1 , p. 179 f.
  2. ↑ Lorenz Hein: Italian Protestants and their influence on the Reformation in Poland during the two decades before the Sandomir Consensus 1570 , Brill, Leiden 1974, ISBN 978-9-00403-893-6 , p. 66 ff.
  3. ↑ Irene Dingel and Kestutis Daugirdas: Antitrinitarian Disputes: The Tritheistic Phase (1560–1568), Theological Controversies 1548-1577 / 80 , Controversia et Confessio, Volume 9, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-647-56015- 1 , pp. 181-182
personal data
SURNAME Lismanini, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian reformer in Poland
DATE OF BIRTH around 1504
PLACE OF BIRTH Corfu
DATE OF DEATH April 1566
Place of death Königsberg (Prussia)