Socin Celse

Socin Celse, (Socinus Celsus ; italien Sozini ou Sozzini,) another brother of Laelius, settled first at Sienna, as Professor Extraordinary of Civil Law ; and afterwards removed to Bologna, where, through his father's interest, he enjoyed a salary, as Professor of Canon Law. 

On the death of his father, in 1556, Celsus succeeded him in his Professorship at the Academy of Macerata; but was soon obliged to leave Italy, on account of a change in his religious sentiments. Bock appears to doubt whether he embraced the opinions of his brother Laelius ; but admits that he may have done this, without publicly professing them, because Laelius himself never made an open avowal of Antitrinitarianism. Judging from the little that is known of Celsus, his great failing seems to have been a want of perseverance. 

Hubert Languet, writing to a friend, at the close of the year 1559, says, that Celsus had then formed an engagement with the University of Jena ; but anticipates that, if he should go thither, his stay would be short. It is not improbable that he threw up the appointment ; for his name does not appear in Adrian Beier's " Syllabus of the Rectors and Professors at Jena."

(Vidend. Bock, Hist. Ant. T. II. pp. 576, 577. R. S. apud Mon. Rep. Vol. I. (N. S.) p. 571.)

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