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In Studiosos AdolescentesIl viaggio inaspettato di un manoscritto gesuita dal Brasile all'Italia (sec. XVIII)
Il volume, a cura di Marina Massimi e Alcir Pecora, presenta l’edizione critica di un manoscritto didattico del 1751, proveniente da due collegi gesuiti di Bahia (Brasile) e attualmente conservato presso la Biblioteca Comunale di Urbania (Marche). Offre il testo originale latino di In Studiosos Adolescentes, insieme a un’analisi storico-letterario del contesto della sua produzione nonché del “viaggio inaspettato” e intercontinentale del manoscritto tra l’America del Sud e l’Europa. Il libro è arricchito da quattro saggi introduttivi scritti da studiosi del settore, da inediti documenti ad esso collegati e da un accurato apparato critico. La presente edizione fornisce un contributo fondamentale alla storia dell’educazione, della retorica e della poetica gesuita in epoca moderna. Rivela inoltre le circostanze e conseguenze globali dell’espulsione dei gesuiti dai territori dell’impero portoghese, che costituì il primo passo verso la soppressione papale della Compagnia di Gesù tra 1773 e 1814.
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A Splash of DiamondThe Jesuit Presence in Ethiopia from 1945 to the Present
In this volume, Festo Mkenda, SJ, a leading voice in studies on the Society of Jesus in Africa, turns his attention to the little-known history of the Jesuit presence in modern Ethiopia. Marking the recent seventy-fifth anniversary of the arrival of a small group of Canadian Jesuits in 1945—the first sustained presence in over three hundred years—the book outlines the origins and modern history of the Jesuits in Ethiopia. Bringing to life their story in vivid detail, it will be of interest both inside Ethiopia and its diaspora, as well as to all of those interested in Africa and the Church today.
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Cinque secoli di Litterae IndipetaeIl desiderio delle missioni nella Compagnia di Gesu
This volume, edited by Girolamo Imbruglia, Pierre-Antoine Fabre, and Guido Mongini, presents the first comprehensive treatment of the Litterae indipetae – letters of petition that Jesuits sent from all over Europe to the Superior General seeking appointment to the “Indies”. Unique to the Society of Jesus, over 22,000 Litterae indipetae are preserved at the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu spanning five centuries, giving voice to thousands of individual Jesuits and their collective desire for the missions. Despite their remarkable longevity, the Litterae indipetae have been little known or understood until recent times. Yet like no other source, these petitions testify to the scope and depth of the Society’s missionary identity. The book offers a timely survey of the subject through thirty short chapters in Italian, English, and French, organised both chronologically and thematically, and written by leading and emerging specialists. The volume is intended as an introduction to the source as well as a showcase of the latest scholarship in the field.
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Memoirs of Seventeen Boarders at the College of Nobles in Parma (1670)Youth and Education in Early Modern Italy
This volume is the critical edition of a seventeenth-century manuscript about youth and education in Italy, Memoirs of Seventeen Boarders at the College of Nobles in Parma (1670), preserved at the Biblioteca Comunale “Passerini Landi”, Piacenza. A later manuscript at the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu was part of a publication project that never went ahead in the 1820s, shortly after the papal restoration of the Society of Jesus. Memoirs of Seventeen Boarders is filled with insights into college life, seen through the eyes of the author: its operations; the Jesuit educational method; the relationship between the Jesuits and boarders, and their families; the conduct of the students, and the recorded affective and spiritual experiences of these youths. Edited by Miriam Turrini, the book includes the full transcribed text of the Memoirs in the original Italian language, with extensive annotations and a substantial Introduction in English that places the work and its author in context and traces the manuscripts’ fortunes between the Old and New Society.
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La Compagnie de Jesus des Anciens Regimes au monde contemporain
(XVIII - XX siecles)This volume, edited by Pierre-Antoine Fabre, Patrick Goujon SJ and Martín M. Morales SJ, presents thirty-seven essays on the modern history of the Society of Jesus, spanning the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. The essays are multilingual, multidisciplinary and range across a wide chronological, geographical and thematic landscape within the field of modern history, while the papal Suppression (1773) and Restoration (1814) of the worldwide Society provide the volume’s main orientation. Until recently, modern Jesuit history has received relatively limited scholarly attention. This volume aims to guide researchers in the riches of this period in the Society’s history and demonstrate its importance for modern historical studies more broadly. A novelty of the volume is that it brings together the later history of the “Old Society”, the interim period of the Suppression (1773–1814), and the “New Society” (from the Restoration). The book’s broad frame provides a window onto the great ruptures of European history, the main events of modern Catholic history, and early globalization. While the well-known upheavals of this period come into view, the persistent continuities of these centuries also emerge, exemplified most potently by the Society’s own partial survival during the forty-one years of its papal suppression.
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