Giovanni Pietro Maffei

Orator Giovan Pietro Maffei by Giovanni Battista Moroni.

Giovanni Pietro Maffei (1533–1603), also anglicized as John Peter Maffei, was an Italian Jesuit and author.^[1] 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.^[1]

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

Notes

1 2 Baldwin, p.293

References

Charles N. Baldwin A Universal Biographical Dictionary, Containing the Lives of the Most Celebrated Characters of Every Age and Nation Andrus & Judd, 1833

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