1751 1ed JESUITS Lives Illustrated Folio Portraits St Ignatius Loyola Catholic

1751 1^ed JESUITS Lives Illustrated Folio Portraits St Ignatius Loyola Catholic

 

“Act as if everything depended on you; trust as if everything depended on God.”

― Ignatius of Loyola

 

An impressive collection of portraits and biographical sketches of important and eminent Jesuit Superior Generals and Catholic theologians. The huge, folio tome features the illustrations of Arnold Westerhout and descriptions by Niccolo Galeotti. This highly desirable and valuable first edition book was published in 1751 in Rome and was written in both Latin and Italian. This edition, which is also considered the most complete, includes descriptions of the following Jesuits:

• Ignatius Loyola
• Diego Laínez
• Francisco de Borja
• Everard Mercurian
• Claudio Aquaviva
• Muzio Vitelleschi
• Vincenzo Carrafa
• Francesco Piccolomini
• Alessandro Gottifredi
• Goswin Nickel
• Giovanni Paolo Oliva
• Charles de Noyelle
• Tirso González
• Michelangelo Tamburini
• Franz Retz
• Ignazio Visconti

 

Item number: #3653

Price: $950

 

GALEOTTI, Niccolo

 

Imagines praepositorum generalium societatis Jesu… Ritratti de’ prepositi generali della Compagnia di Gesú

 

In Roma : A spese di Venantio Monaldini mercante-libraro al Corso, MDCCLI [1751]

 

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [40] leaves, [1] blank
  • Signatures: [pi]-2[pi]² A-R²
• References: de Backer III, 1108-09
• Language: Latin / Italian in parallel columns
• Binding: leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~15.5in X 11in (39cm x 28cm)

 

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