Daniello Bartoli (1608 – 1685), Italian Jesuit writer and historian, was born in Ferrara and entered the Society of Jesus in 1623. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest The Society of Jesus ( Latin: Societas Iesu, SJ and SI or SJ, SI) is a Catholic religious order Ferrara is a city in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital city of the Province of Ferrara. The Society of Jesus ( Latin: Societas Iesu, SJ and SI or SJ, SI) is a Catholic religious order [1]
Debarred by his superiors because of his manifest literary talents from the missions in the Indies he would later describe, he attained high distinction as a teacher of rhetoric and a preacher in Genoa, Florence and Rome. Rhetoric has had many definitions no simple definition can do it justice Genoa ( Genova, ˈdʒɛːnova in Italian; Zena in Genoese and Ligurian; Genua in Latin and archaically in English Florence ( Italian: Firenze Florentia and Fiorenza) is the Capital City of the Italian region of Tuscany Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2
Bartoli's celebrated first work, L'huomo di lettere difeso ed emendato (1645), a literary vademecum for its time, became a Baroque best seller in Italian and in numerous translations, over thirty editions appearing during his lifetime. As a Jesuit historian Bartoli represents the shift from the preceding Latin humanist historiography of Niccolò Orlandini and Francesco Sacchini to the illustrious Jesuit prose tradition he established in Italian when he undertook the official history of the first century of the Society of Jesus (1540). Niccolò Orlandini ( 1554 - May 17, 1606) was an Italian Jesuit author His monumental Istoria della Compagnia di Gesu (Rome, 1650-1673), in 6 folio vols. is the longest Italian classic. It begins with a somewhat ponderous biography of the founder Ignatius Loyola. Saint Ignatius redirects here for other Saints see Ignatius. Ignatius of Loyola, also known as Íñigo Oñaz López de Loyola Particularly fascinating and exotic are his histories of Francis Xavier and the Jesuit missions in the East which describe India, L'Asia (1653), Japan, Il Giappone (1660), and China, La Cina (1663). India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National To these he added volumes on the Society in England, L"Inghiterra (1670) and Italy, L'Italia (1673). Later in life he wrote a number of interesting scientific treatises, in addition to a catalogue of Jesuit lives and moral and spiritual works brought together in a folio edition of 1684, Le Morali. From 1670 to 1673 Bartoli served as Rector of the Collegio Romano. Pontifical Gregorian University (Pontificia Università Gregoriana (also known as the Gregorianum) is a Pontifical university located in Rome, Italy He died in Rome.
During the age of Leopardi and Manzoni Bartoli became the literary paragon of Restoration Italy as a master of prose style. Outstanding among the numerous editions of his works from that period there is the standard collected edition of his works, in 12 vols, published by Giacinto Marietti, Turin, 1825-1856.
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- ^ Daniello Bartoli - Catholic Encyclopedia article
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