An elusive figure of late Socinianism, Benedykt Wiszowaty (ca. 1660–after 1704) was the great grandson of Fausto Sozzini. He was educated in Amsterdam, where he was responsible for several publications that ensured the Western European reception of Socinianism after its proscription from Poland, including Christoph Sand’s (1644–1680) Bibliotheca Anti-Trinitariorum (1684). With his Medulla historiae ecclesiasticae (ca. 1685), Wiszowaty accomplished "probably the last serious work to come from the Polish Socinians, one which winds up their contribution for good and is in a sense their parting shot" (Lech Szczucki). Rooted in sixteenth-century Protestant apologetic traditions and much indebted to contemporary schorlarship from different confessions, the Medulla aims to identify traces of Socinian Christology in every period of Christian history. Pablo Toribio publishes this Latin treatise for the first time, providing a critical edition based on all known manuscripts (held today in Budapest, Cluj-Napoca and Hamburg). The edition is introduced by a philological discussion of the text and an account of Wiszowaty’s life and intellectual profile., Peer reviewed

Scholarship on Martin Seidel’s Origo et fundamenta religionis Christianae (c.1590) has stressed its ‘proto-deistic’ character as well as its role in the prehistory of the research on the historical Jesus. But Seidel’s skills as biblical philologist and translator, which surface in his abundant Latin quotations from the Bible, also deserve attention. A preliminary analysis, based on his translation of Isaiah 52–53, has suggested Seidel’s engagement with the Antwerp Polyglot and his probable knowledge of other sixteenth-century Latin translations of the Bible. This paper aims at verifying and qualifying these preliminary results by extending the analysis to Seidel’s quotations from the New Testament., El presente trabajo se enmarca en el proyecto Biblia latina e historiografía eclesiástica: edición y
estudio de textos (PID2020-114729GB-I00), financiado por MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033., Peer reviewed

Este libro ofrece la edición bilingüe (latín-español) de una selección de prólogos de ediciones de la Biblia impresas entre 1483 y 1600. El recorrido por estos prólogos abre una ventana al quehacer intelectual del siglo XVI en torno a la Biblia en la Europa latina., Entre otros aspectos, la obra ilustra el desarrollo del trabajo filológico sobre el texto bíblico y los comienzos de una incipiente crítica textual bíblica, que está en el origen de la moderna filología; la imbricación de los intereses de editores y libreros con los de humanistas y teólogos; las servidumbres inherentes a la búsqueda de mecenazgo y patrocinio; los condicionamientos impuestos por la progresiva división confesional del cristianismo latino entre católicos y distintos grupos protestantes., Asimismo, se prueba la vigencia del latín como lengua de comunicación culta internacional e interconfesional, y también como llave de acceso a la realidad multilingüe de la Biblia, pese al incipiente desarrollo de las lenguas vernáculas como repositorio de los saberes compartidos., Peer reviewed

This paper has been carried out as part of the research project “Biblia latina e historiografía
eclesiástica: edición y estudio de textos” (PID2020-114729GB-I00), funded by the Spanish MICIU/
AEI/10.13039/501100011033., Peer reviewed

This paper was written within the framework of the Project "Biblia latina e historiografía eclesiástica: edición y estudio de textos" (PID2020-114729GB-100), funded by the Spanish MICIU/ AEI/10.13039/501100011033., Peer reviewed