Another Man Who Knew Everything? The Antonio Possevino Project

Antonio Possevino (1533–1611) is one of the most fascinating early modern Jesuits, renowned for his political and diplomatic activities in Central and Eastern Europe and the prolific author of treatises, pamphlets, and commentaries, as well as the Bibliotheca selecta (1583), his encyclopedic masterpiece. Although he is often quoted in recent scholarship and hundreds of articles and books on specific aspects of his life and career have been published, the most recent comprehensive biography written about him dates back to the eighteenth century, a work by the French Jesuit Jean Dorigny. In connection with The Collaborative Possevino Project, a multi-author intellectual biography of Antonio Possevino sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, we look for papers that explore different aspects of Possevino, his life, his publications, and his intellectual legacy.