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

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: 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
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 271/.53045 23
LOC classification:
  • BX3737 .R87 2022
Contents:
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.
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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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Automatización y Procesos Técnicos Automatización y Procesos Técnicos (1er. Piso) BX3737 .R87 2022 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000187903

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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