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Exploring Jesuit Distinctiveness <UN> Jesuit Studies Modernity through the Prism of Jesuit History VOLUME 6 The Boston College International Symposia on Jesuit Studies VOLUME 1 Edited by Robert Aleksander Maryks (Boston College) Editorial Board James Bernauer, S.J. (Boston College) Louis Caruana, S.J. (Pontif icia Università Gregoriana, Rome) Emanuele Colombo (DePaul University) Paul Grendler (University of Toronto, emeritus) Yasmin Haskell (University of Western Australia) Ronnie Po-chia Hsia (Pennsylvania State University) Thomas M. McCoog, S.J. (Fordham University) Mia Mochizuki (New York University Abu Dhabi and Institute of Fine Arts, New York) Sabina Pavone (Università degli Studi di Macerata) Moshe Sluhovsky (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Jeffrey Chipps Smith (The University of Texas at Austin) The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/js <UN> Exploring Jesuit Distinctiveness Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Ways of Proceeding within the Society of Jesus Edited by Robert Aleksander Maryks Published for the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College LEIDEN | BOSTON <UN> This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NonDerivative 3.0 Unported (cc-by-nc-nd 3.0) License, which permits any noncommercial use, and distribution, provided no alterations are made and the original author(s) and source are credited. 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This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. <UN> Contents List of Figures and Tables vii Notes on Contributors viii Introduction 1 Robert Aleksander Maryks 1 Francesco Benci and the Origins of Jesuit Neo-Latin Epic 4 Paul Gwynne 2 Exploring the Distinctiveness of Neo-Latin Jesuit Didactic Poetry in Naples: The Case of Nicolò Partenio Giannettasio 24 Claudia Schindler 3 Civic Education on Stage: Civic Values and Virtues in the Jesuit Schools of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 41 Jolanta Rzegocka 4 “Ask the Jesuits to Send Verses from Rome”: The Society’s Networks and the European Dissemination of Devotional Music 62 Daniele V. Filippi 5 Priestly Violence, Martyrdom, and Jesuits: The Case of Diego de Alfaro (Paraguay, 1639) 81 Andrew Redden 6 Colonial Theodicy and the Jesuit Ascetic Ideal in José de Acosta’s Works on Spanish America 114 Bryan Green 7 Purple Silk and Black Cotton: Francisco Cabral and the Negotiation of Jesuit Attire in Japan (1570–73) 137 Linda Zampol D’Ortia 8 Pedro de Ribadeneyra’s Vida del P. Ignacio de Loyola (1583) and Literary Culture in Early Modern Spain 156 Rady Roldán-Figueroa <UN> vi contents 9 The Distinctiveness of the Society of Jesus’s Mission in Pedro de Ribadeneyra’s Historia ecclesiastica del schisma del reyno de Inglaterra (1588) 175 Spencer J. Weinreich 10 Discerning Skills: Psychological Insight at the Core of Jesuit Identity 189 Cristiano Casalini 11 Distinctive Contours of Jesuit Enlightenment in France 212 Jeffrey D. Burson 12 One Century of Science: The Jesuit Journal Brotéria (1902–2002) 235 Francisco Malta Romeiras and Henrique Leitão Bibliography 259 Index 296 <UN> List of Figures and Tables Figures 3.1 Cardinal Hosius brings Jesuits to Poland 44 5.1 The Martyrdom of Diego de Alfaro 87 10.1 The first page of the Triennial Catalogue of the Roman College, 1600 200 10.2 An excerpt from the Secret Catalogue of the Roman College, 1600 202 12.1 Cover of the first issue of the journal Brotéria, October 1902 244 12.2 Centaurea luisieri 247 12.3 Editorial evolution of the journal Brotéria 250 12.4 Microscopic observation on the movement of univalent chromosomes on wheat pentaploid hybrids 254 12.5 Cover of the first issue of the journal Brotéria—Genética (1980) 256 Table 4.1 Philippe de Monte, Il primo libro de’ madrigali spirituali a cinque voci, 1581: poetic texts 64 <UN> Notes on Contributors Jeffrey D. Burson is an associate professor of history at Georgia Southern University, specializing in modern French history and the Enlightenment. He is the author of The Rise and Fall of Theological Enlightenment: Jean-Martin de Prades and Ideological Polarization in Eighteenth-Century France (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010) and the co-editor of Enlightenment Catholicism: A Trans- national History (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014) and The Suppression of the Jesuits in Global Context: Causes, Events, Significance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015). He is the editor-in-chief of the Eighteenth-Century Thought journal and has published numerous articles and chapters, including contributions to French Historical Studies, French History, Réflexions historiques, Intellectual History Review, and Church History. Cristiano Casalini is a researcher and professor at the University of Parma. He is currently a visit- ing professor at the Lynch School of Education and a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College, where he is working on early Jesuit pedagogy. His research focuses on sixteenth-century Jesuit educa- tion. He has worked on critical texts and commentaries of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century classics of education, especially those concerning the Jesuit order, and has written a book on Cursus Conimbricensis, the first philo- sophical textbook published by the Jesuits of Coimbra at the end of the six- teenth century. Daniele V. Filippi studied musicology in Pavia/Cremona and in Heidelberg. His scholarly inter- ests include early modern music and spirituality, historical soundscapes, and intertextuality in Renaissance music. He has published critical editions, books, articles (Journal of the Alamire Foundation, Revista de musicología, Early Music, Early Music History), and chapters on composers such as Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Luca Marenzio, and Philippe de Monte. In 2012–14, he worked as a research fellow at Boston College’s Jesuit Institute on a project entitled “The Soundscape of Early Modern Catholicism,” which investi- gated a range of topics including the use of music and sound in Jesuit missions, the sonic experience of the Tridentine mass, and the connections between devotional songs and spiritual practices. He has edited a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Jesuit Studies, titled “Their Sound Hath Gone Forth into All <UN> notes on contributors ix the Earth”: Music and Sounds in the Pastoral Practice of Early Modern Jesuits.” He is currently part of a research team on a project about late fifteenth-century sacred music (“Motet Cycles, c.1470–c.1510: Compositional Design, Performance, and Cultural Context”), funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and based at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Basel, Switzerland). Bryan Green holds a PhD in Hispanic languages and literatures (University of California, Los Angeles, 2012), and currently works as an assistant professor at the Instituto de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile, where he teaches courses on colonial Latin American litera- ture and culture. In 2014, he was awarded a multi-year grant by the Chilean government to research ascetic discourses and the problem of theodicy in colo- nial Spanish America (fondecyt Iniciación en Investigación #11140527, “El ascetismo y el problema de la teodicea en la Hispanoamérica colonial”). He has published articles on Jesuit hagiography and natural history from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Spanish America, and is completing a new translation of Miguel Venegas’s,