Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy : biographical writing in the early global age /
Camilla Russell.
- 271 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history .
- I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: A new society and its Jesuits, 1540-1640 -- Vocation and entry -- Candidates for overseas missions -- Being a Jesuit in the 'Indies' -- On the Italian home front -- Deaths and departures.
"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"--