Giorgio Biandrata

Giorgio Biandrata or Blandrata (1515 – 5 May 1588) was an Italian-born Transylvanian physician and polemicist, who came from the De Biandrate family, powerful from the early part of the 13th century.

In 1544 he made his first trip to Transylvania; in 1553 he was with Giovanni Paolo Alciati in the Grisons; in 1557 he spent a year at Geneva, in constant contact with Calvin, who distrusted him.

She had been instrumental in the burning (1539) of Catharine Weygel, at the age of 80, for anti-trinitarian opinions; but the writings of Ochino had altered her views, which were now anti-Catholic.

[1] In 1563 Biandrata transferred his services to the Transylvanian court of John Sigismund Zápolya, where the daughters of his patroness were married to ruling princes.

[1] Together, they published some polemical writings against Trinitarian belief, particularly De falsa et vera unius Dei Patris, Filii et Spiritus Sancti cognitione, which is largely a summarized version of Servetus's Christianismi Restitutio.