TY - BOOK AU - Russell,Camilla TI - Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy: biographical writing in the early global age T2 - I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history SN - 9780674261129 AV - BX3737 .R87 2022 U1 - 271/.53045 23 PY - 2022/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - Harvard University Press KW - Jesuits KW - Italy KW - History KW - 16th-17th centuries KW - Sources KW - Biography KW - Historiography KW - Biographies KW - lcgft N1 - 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 N2 - "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"-- ER -