biography
| name: |
Aconzio, Jacopo
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Lat Jacobus Acontius
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pronunciation:
[akontsioh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1500–66)
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| biography:
| Engineer, courtier, and writer, born in Trent (now Trento), N Italy. He went to Basel in 1557, and in 1559 to England, after repudiating Roman Catholicism. His antidogmatic Stratagemata Satanae (1565) offers a very early advocacy of toleration. |
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