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 (hbk.)
AV  - BX 3737 R961b 2022
U1  - 271/.53045 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Jesuits
KW  - Italy
KW  - History
KW  - 16th-17th centuries
KW  - Sources
KW  - Jesuitas
KW  - Historia
KW  - Italia
KW  - Fuentes
KW  - Biography
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Historiografía
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 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
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  -