Gregorio Leti ( 1630 - 1701 )

Birth: Milan, Italy (29 May 1630) Death: Amsterdam, Netherlands (09 June 1701) Profession: Author Education: Jesuit School at Cosenza; Pupil of his uncle, Agostino Leti, Bishop of Acquapendente Career: Went to Geneva, where he became a Protestant (1660); wrote polemical books against the Roman Catholic Church; acted as unofficial censor for the Grand Dukes of Tuscany, to ensure that nothing prejudicial to the Medici was published in Switzerland; held various diplomatic posts for Venice and France; naturalised Swiss (1674); banished from Geneva for defaming the Protestant religion, for 'Machiavellianism' and for immorality (1679); went to France and then London, where he incurred the enmity of the Roman Catholic community (1680-1683); fled to Holland Membership: Fellow Election Date: 30/11/1681 Proposers: Sir Theodore de Vaux Last in 1683 Printed list.