Francesco Lismanino Italian-Polish Franciscan.

Lismanino came as a child to Kraków, but returned as a teenager to Italy to study, where he entered the Franciscan order. In 1533 he returned to the Italianate court of Bona Sforza

Bona Sforza

Bona Sforza was a member of the powerful Milanese House of Sforza. In 1518, she became the second wife of Sigismund I the Old, the King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, and became the Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania.She was the third child of Gian Galeazzo Sforza and his wife...

 in Kraków, where he was later cantor, and confessor to the queen. He then was appointed superintendent of the Franciscan order in Poland and Lithuania.

Lismanino tried to reconcile the doctrine of the Trinity and the Nicene Creed

Nicene Creed

The Nicene Creed is the creed or profession of faith that is most widely used in Christian liturgy. It is called Nicene because, in its original form, it was adopted in the city of Nicaea by the first ecumenical council, which met there in the year 325.The Nicene Creed has been normative to the...

 with some of the ideas of Calvinism.

He invited Pierre Statorius

Pierre Statorius

Pierre Statorius was a French grammarian and theologian, who settled among the Polish Brethren, becoming rector of a the Calvinist Academy in Pińczów at the invitation of Francesco Lismanino....

, a French grammarian and theologian, to become rector of the Sarmatian Athens, the Calvinist Pińczów Academy

Pińczów Academy

The Pińczów Academy or Gymnasium was a Calvinist college in Pińczów, Poland from 1550-1565. This coincides with the Calvinist synods of Pińczów 1550-1564....

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