page_title: Reformation in Italy
section_title: Impact of the Italian Reformation
hierarchical_section_title: Reformation in Italy / Impact of the Italian Reformation
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Fausto Sozzini English: Fausto Paolo Sozzini Polski: Faust Socyn
context_page_description: The Protestant Reformation began in 1520s in the Italian states, although forms of pre-Protestantism were already present before the 16th century. The Reformation in Italy collapsed quickly at the beginning of the 17th century. Its development was hindered by the Inquisition and also popular disdain.
context_section_description: In Italy the Reformation exerted almost no lasting influence, except for strengthening the Catholic Church, unlike the essential impact it had on other European countries (Switzerland, Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, and Transylvania among others). Many Italians were outstanding activists of the European Reformation, mainly in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (e.g. Giorgio Biandrata, Bernardino Ochino, Giovanni Alciato, Giovanni Battista Cetis, Fausto Sozzini, Francesco Stancaro and Giovanni Valentino Gentile) who propagated Nontrinitarianism there and were chief instigators of the movement of Polish Brethren.
caption: Fausto Sozzini, founder of Socinianism
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