Socin Camille, (Socunus Camilius ; italien, Sozini ou Sozzini,) was a brother of Laelius Socinus. Having embraced the principles of the Reformation, and carried his views much further than some of the leading reformers of the day, he left his native country, and went into Switzerland, where he joined the other Italian refugees. By De Porta he is called Camillus Sozinus, in his History of the Reformed Religion among the Grisons. Very different views have been formed of his character by friends and enemies. The latter have represented him as artful in his conduct, and absurd in his opinions ; while the former have praised him, as an upright and pious man, and an enemy only to pharisaism, or hypocritical pretension. He is mentioned in connexion with a Synod, held in the month of June, 1571, at Coire, the capital of the canton of the Grisons ; on which occasion a sharp debate took place, concerning the punishment of heretics. An account of this debate was transmitted, in a letter to Henry Bullinger, by Tobias Eglin (or Iconius, as he calls himself); which Schelhorn copied from the public registry at Zurich, and inserted in his " Dissertation concerning Minus Celsus." It appears, that Camillus Socinus, who, with some others, took the liberal side of the question, at the above-mentioned Synod, was privately disowned, after which he found it expedient to leave Switzerland; but of his subsequent history little, or nothing has been preserved.  

It is placed beyond a doubt, that he was an Antitrinitarian ; and Cornelius and Celsus, two other brothers of Laelius, are said to have embraced the same sentiments.

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