Matthew), a learned civilian of Padua, left Italy in the 16th century, in order to make a public profession of the Protestant religion. After having been for some time professor of the civil law at Tubingen, he was obliged to make his escape to avoid the punishment he would have incurred had he been convicted of differing from Calvin with respect to the doctrine of the Trinity: but he was seized at Berne, where he would have met with very severe treatment had he not pretended to renounce his opinions; but as he relapsed again, he would certainly have been put to death, had he not died of the plague in 1664. He wrote De methodo ac ratione studendi in juri civilis; and several other works which are esteemed.