Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy : biographical writing in the early global age / Camilla Russell.

By:

Russell, Camilla

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance historyPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022Description: 271 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780674261129 (hbk.)
0674261127 (hbk.)

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Biographies.

DDC classification:

271/.53045

LOC classification:

BX 3737 R961b 2022

Contents:

Introduction: A New Society and Its Jesuits, 1540-1640 p. l 1 Vocation and Entry p. 18 2 Candidates for Overseas Missions p. 52 3 Being a Jesuit in the "Indies" p. 86 4 On the Italian Home Front p. 115 5 Deaths and Departures p. 146 Afterword: Writing Jesuit Lives p. 173 Notes p. 179 Acknowledgments p. 255 Index p. 259

Summary: "Founded in 1540, the Society of Jesus was instantly popular, attracting thousands of candidates in its first century. Camilla Russell looks to the lives and writings of early Jesuits to better understand the Society's appeal, how it worked, and the ideas that drove Christian thinkers and missionaries during the Renaissance and early modern period"-- Provided by publisher.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	BX 3737 R961b 2022 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	00000187903

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: A New Society and Its Jesuits, 1540-1640 p. l
1 Vocation and Entry p. 18
2 Candidates for Overseas Missions p. 52
3 Being a Jesuit in the "Indies" p. 86
4 On the Italian Home Front p. 115
5 Deaths and Departures p. 146
Afterword: Writing Jesuit Lives p. 173
Notes p. 179
Acknowledgments p. 255
Index p. 259

"Founded in 1540, the Society of Jesus was instantly popular, attracting thousands of candidates in its first century. Camilla Russell looks to the lives and writings of early Jesuits to better understand the Society's appeal, how it worked, and the ideas that drove Christian thinkers and missionaries during the Renaissance and early modern period"-- Provided by publisher.

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