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Giovanni Pietro Maffei

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Name
  
Giovanni Maffei


Died
  
1603, Tivoli, Italy

Giovanni Pietro Maffei

Giovanni Pietro Maffei (1533–1603), also anglicized as John Peter Maffei, was an Italian Jesuit and author. He wrote a life of Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, and also wrote about the activities of the Society in the Orient.

Works

  • De vita et moribus B. P. Ignatii Loiolae, qui societatem Jesu fundavit.
  • Vite di diciassette confessori di Cristo
  • Le istorie dell' Indie Orientali
  • La chirurgia
  • Rerum a Societate Jesu in Oriente gestarvm tractatus
  • Historica Indica (1588)

    • References

    Giovanni Pietro Maffei Wikipedia
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