JESUIT HISTORIOGRAPHY IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE

Fueter Eduard. Geschichte der neueren Historiographic, Munich, 1936, p. 361.

Possevino Antonio. Bibliotheca selecta de ratione studiorum in Historia, In disciplinis, in salute omnium procuranda, Venice, 1593. See also Possevino, Antonio. Aduersus Dauidis Chytraei haeretici imposturas, quas in oratione quadam inseruit, quam de statu ecclesiarum, hoc tempore in Graecia, Asia ... inscriptam edidit, & per Sueciam, ac Daniam disseminari curauit, Ingolstadt, 1583.

He was born in 1526 in Toledo, since when a child met Loyola and became his

favourite disciple. Since 1540 member of the Society of Jesus, died in 1611 in Madrid.

Fueter Eduard. Op. Cit, p. 364.

Suetonius has been for the humanistic biography what Livy was for the chronicling.

He was a clever erudite, a diligent antiquary but he has never been an historian. He did not even take in consideration historical problems. He simply created a rigid scheme to organize his material. The historical analysis was superior of his forces. Humanists, in fact, borrowed from him only the scheme to organize the contents.

Completed in 1609 but published posthumous in 1612 in Madrid.

Orlandini was born in Florence in 1572, entered in the Society in Rome and died in Naples in 1606.

See Ranke, Leopold. Analekten zur Geschichte der romischen papste, in Ueber einige Geschichtschreiber des Jesuiterordens, 83, 1950.

Famiano Strada born in Rome in 1572; in 1591 entered in the Society as professor of eloquence in the Roman College; died in 1649.

Strada Famiano. De hello Belgico decas prima ab excessu Caroli 5. imp. usque ad initio

praefecturae Alexandri Farnesii Parmae ac Placentiae ducis 3. Additis hominum illustrium ad historiam praecipuae spectantium imaginibus ad vivum expressis, Rome, 1643.

Fueter Eduard. Op. Cit, p. 369.

Fueter Eduard. Op. Cit., p. 186.

Voltaire demonstrated to know very well this author even if referred to him only in a negative way.

In the previous histories of France, these two mythological ancestors were, without any doubt, included in the national history.

Preface, Art 2. See Fueter Eduard. Op. Cit., p. 187.

Maimbourg Louis. Histoire du Lutheranisme. Par le P. Louis Maimbourg, de la compagnie de Jesus, Paris, 1680.

Bollandists are a group of Belgian Jesuits, named for their early leader, Jean Bolland, a Flemish Jesuit of the 17th century. They were charged by the Holy See with com­ piling an authoritative edition of the lives of the saints, the monumental Acta sanc­ torum, which is still in progress.

Fueter Eduard. Op. Cit., p. 417.

Began in 1643 in Antwerp by the Jesuit Jean Bolland, interrupted in 1794 and took up again in Bruxelles in 1837.

See also Abbe Pitra. Etudes sur la collection des Actes des Saints, Paris, 1850.

Garin Eugenio. L'Educazione in Europa. 1400 - 1600, Bari, 1976, p. 202.

Ibid.

Ivi p. 204. See also, Possevino, Antonio. Cultura degl'ingegni, Vicenza, 1598.

Garin Eugenio. Op. cit., p. 206

Ratio atque institutio studiorum per sex patres ad id iussu R.P. praepositi ģenerālis depu­tātos conscripta, Rome, 1586 - 1606.

Juan de Mariana, (1536, Talavera - 1624, Madrid), was a Spanish historian. He stud­ied at the University of Alcali, and was admitted at the age of seventeen into the Society of Jesus. In 1561 he went to teach theology in Rome, reckoning among his pupils Robert Bellarmine, afterwards cardinal; then passed into Sicily; and in 1569 he was sent to Paris, where his expositions of the writings of Thomas Aquinas attracted large audiences. In 1574, owing to ill health, he obtained permission to return to Spain; the rest of his life being passed at the Jesuits' house in Toledo in vig­orous literary activity.