Antonio Possevino [SEP] place of birth
Antonio Possevino
Antonio Possevino (Antonius Possevinus) (10 July 1533 – 26 February 1611) was a Jesuit protagonist of Counter Reformation as a papal diplomat and a Jesuit controversialist, encyclopedist and bibliographer. He acted as papal legate and the first Jesuit to visit Moscow, vicar general of Sweden, Denmark and northern islands, Muscovy, Livonia, Rus, Hungary, Pomerania, Saxony between 1578 and 1586.
Life.
Life Mantua, Rome, and Ferrara: Renaissance humanist and tutor.
Recent scholarship has identified Antonio Possevino
1593. See Urs App, "The Birth of Orientalism", Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010 (), pp. 18–24, 139-146 on the important role of this work of Valignano (version included in the "Bibliotheca selecta" of Antonio Possevino, 1593) in the European reception of Asian religions.
- Timeline of Valignano biography