Memoirs of seventeen boarders at the College of Nobles in Parma (1670) : youth and education in Early Modern Italy / Orazio Smeraldi SJ ; edited with an introduction by Miriam Turrini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smeraldi, Orazio, 1592-1672, author.

Contributor:

Turrini, Miriam, editor.

Jesuit Historical Institute, publisher.

Series:

Monumenta historica Societatis Iesu ; series nova, v. 11.

Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu ; Nova series, vol. 11

Language:

English

Italian

Physical Description:

xvi, 237 pages : color facsimiles, maps (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rome : Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu (IHSI), 2021.

Language Note:

Text in Italian, introduction in English.

Summary:

This volume is the critical edition of a seventeenth-century manuscript about youth and education in Italy, Memoirs of Seventeen Boarders at the College of Nobles in Parma (1670), preserved at the Biblioteca Comunale "Passerini Landi", Piacenza. A later manuscript at the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu was part of a publication project that never went ahead in the 1820s, shortly after the papal restoration of the Society of Jesus. Published for the first time, the work is by Orazio Smeraldi SJ (1592-1672) and narrates the lives and premature deaths of a number of young boarders who were at the college overseen by the Society of Jesus. It is filled with insights into college life, seen through the eyes of the author. Edited by Miriam Turrini, the book includes the full transcribed text of Memoirs in the original Italian language, with extensive annotations and a substantial Introduction in English that places the work and its author in context. Orazio Smeraldi's work is a valuable source for scholars and students of the history of education, and of the Jesuit role in the early modern pedagogical sphere. -- Information provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9788870412116

8870412113

OCLC:

1285496679