Giovanni Paolo Alciati, a theologian, born in Piedmont, died in Dantzic about 1570. He embraced Protestantism, and figured in Geneva, but soon afterward promulgated doctrines about the Trinity which were as distasteful to the Protestants as to the Catholics. He and his fellow laborers, among whom was a physician named Blandrata (see Blandrata), had to flee from Geneva, and chose Poland for a refuge, where they met a hearty reception. He wrote two letters (1564 and 15(55) to Gregorio Pauli, maintaining that our Saviour did not exist before his birth of the Virgin Mary.