Difficoltà e speranze nell’esilio «religionis causa» di Marcello Squarcialupi da Piombino (1538-1592)

The physician Marcello Squarcialupi originally from Piombino (1538-1592), a "religionis causa" exile, moved around European territories and did not go back to his homeland anymore. Owing to its several trials, the status as exile was a decisive factor in his life. The different socio-cultural contexts in which he acted did not offer him satisfying professional conditions. Therefore, Squarcialupi made untiring efforts in order to improve his own socio-economic status. However, far from his family as well as discouraged because he never achieved the success he had aimed for, he developed a profound distress. The physician sought comfort in friendship with notable scholars of his day. His professional and financial concerns connected with exile led him to fade his interest for religious matters into the background. Compared to other Italian exiles, Squarcialupi reconsidered the importance of interconfessional issues and his allegiance to non-trinitarianism, supposed so far, should be carefully reappraised.