Jesuit controversialist, encyclopedist and bibliographer
Antonio Possevino
Batory at Pskov. Painting by Jan Matejko. Possevino is the black-robed Jesuit at the center, blessing the offerings
Born
Antonius Possevinus
10 July 1533
Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
Died
26 February 1611(1611-02-26) (aged 77)
Ferrara, Papal States
Nationality
Italian
Occupation(s)
papal diplomat, Jesuit controversialist, encyclopedist and bibliographer
Notable work
Bibliotheca selecta qua agitur de ratione studiorum (1593) Apparatus ad omnium gentium historiam (2 vols., 1597–1602) Apparatus sacer ad scriptores Veteris et Novi Testamenti (3 vols., 1603–06)
Antonio Possevino (Antonius Possevinus) (10 July 1533 – 26 February 1611) was a Jesuit protagonist of Counter Reformation as a papal diplomat[1] and a Jesuit controversialist, encyclopedist and bibliographer.[2] He was the first Jesuit to visit Muscovy, Sweden, Denmark, Livonia, Hungary, Pomerania, and Saxony in amply documented papal missions between 1578 and 1586 where he championed the enterprising policies of Pope Gregory XIII.
^Oresko, Robert; Gibbs, G. C.; Scott, Hamish M. (January 1997). Royal and Republican Sovereignty in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Memory of Ragnhild Hatton. Cambridge University Press. p. 667. ISBN 978-0-521-41910-9. Possevino, Antonio, s.j., papal diplomat and visitor to Ivan IV's Muscovy
^Luigi Balsamo, Antonio Possevino, Bibliografo della Controriforma (Florence, 2006)
AntonioPossevino (Antonius Possevinus) (10 July 1533 – 26 February 1611) was a Jesuit protagonist of Counter Reformation as a papal diplomat and a Jesuit...
Riberius, 1586 in 2 vols. (very rare work; but wholly included in AntonioPossevino, Bibliotheca Selecta Qua Agitur De Ratione Studiorum in Historia,...
pilgrimage journey". Another version is reported by the papal diplomat AntonioPossevino. According to him, in November 1581 in the Alexandrov Kremlin, Ivan...
represented by Fulvio Cardulo among the first, and afterwards by AntonioPossevino, Giovanni Pietro Maffei, Francesco Benci, Orazio Torsellino, Stefano...
bibliographical guide first published in 1597 and written by AntonioPossevino. Possevino was a major figure in the diplomatic and intellectual life of...
situation. In 1578-79 and 1579–80, she received the papal ambassador AntonioPossevino. He had been given the task of providing Catherine with her Sforza...
omnium procuranda) is a bibliographical encyclopedia by the Jesuit AntonioPossevino, printed in two folio volumes at the Typographia Apostolica Vaticana...
liberal arts, 15–18, by the Mantuan Jesuit humanist and bibliographer AntonioPossevino.[citation needed] From Pandectae, a compendium Eisenstein 1980, p...
to it and forged contacts between the abbey and Rome. The Jesuit AntonioPossevino, as Papal Legate, reformed it in 1580. At this occasion, the abbess...
Maximilian II (b. 1528) 1608 – John Still, English bishop (b. 1543) 1611 – AntonioPossevino, Italian priest and diplomat (b. 1533) 1625 – Anna Vasa of Sweden...
(d. 1582) 1517 – Odet de Coligny, French cardinal (d. 1571) 1533 – AntonioPossevino, Italian diplomat (d. 1611) 1592 – Pierre d'Hozier, French genealogist...
sometime after 1591. It was directed against two leading Jesuits, AntonioPossevino and Robert Bellarmine. Following the Council of Florence, he identifies...
initial target was the Jesuit scholar AntonioPossevino SJ, rector of the Jesuit college of Ferrara. Possevino had published, under various pseudonyms...
gains in Livonia. Subsequent negotiations led by Jesuit papal legate AntonioPossevino resulted in the 1582 Truce of Jam Zapolski between Russia and the...
likely took place in connection to the visit of the papal legate AntonioPossevino to Sweden in 1577. In the summer of 1578, a Spanish ambassador, Francisco...
Francis Xavier Jesuit college in Pašiaušė (1654–1773) named after AntonioPossevino (Collegium Possaviensis), now a ruined chapel [lt] Jesuit residence...
lands. 1578: Heinrich von Staden German soldier, in oprichnina 1586: AntonioPossevino Papal diplomat 1589: Richard Hakluyt published voyages of the Muscovy...
12 – Henry Lee of Ditchley, English noble (b. 1533) February 26 – AntonioPossevino, Italian Jesuit protagonist of Counter Reformation, papal diplomat...
Gesner rejected the medieval quest for orthodoxy. Ironically, Jesuit AntonioPossevino used Bibliotheca universalis as a basis to create a list of forbidden...
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