Ditchfield, Simon Richard orcid.org/0000-0003-1691-0271 (2021) Baroque around the clock::Daniello Bartoli SJ (1608-1685) and the uses of global history. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 1. pp. 1-25. ISSN 0080-4401
Abstract
Right from its foundation in 1540, the Society of Jesus realised the value and role of visual description (ekphrasis) in the persuasive rhetoric of Jesuit missionary accounts. Over a century later, when Jesuit missions were to be found on all the inhabited continents of the world then known to Europeans, descriptions of these new found lands were to be read for entertainment as well as the edification of their Old World audiences. As author of the first official history of the Society’s missions in the vernacular, the volumes by Daniello Bartoli (1608–85) also played an important role in giving not only their Jesuit readers a sense of the distinctiveness of the order's global mission. Referred to by Giacomo Leopardi (1798– 1837) as the ‘Dante of baroque prose’, Bartoli developed a particularly variegated and intensely visual idiom to meet the challenge of describing parts of the world which the majority of his readers, including himself, would never visit.
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > History (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 02 Sep 2021 11:40 |
Last Modified: | 22 Nov 2024 00:41 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0080440121000037 |
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Identification Number: | 10.1017/S0080440121000037 |
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