The Jesuits (16 page)

Feingold, Modechai, ed.
Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.

An impressive collection of articles about the Jesuits' contributions to science.

Findlen, Paula.
Athanasius Kircher: The Last Man Who Knew Everything.
London: Routledge, 2004.

The story of the famous Jesuit eccentric and his accomplishments.

Helyer, Marcus.
Catholic Physics: Jesuit Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Germany.
Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005.

The story of how the Jesuits came to adopt modern methods in science.

Wallace, William.
Galileo and His Sources: The Heritage of the Collegio Romano in Galileo's Science.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. How the Jesuits influenced Galileo, told by an eminent historian of science.

Bailey, Gauvin Alexander.
Art on the Jesuit Missions in Asia and Latin America, 1542–1773.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.

Award-winning account that begins in Europe and sweeps through the rest of the world.

Celenza, Anna Harwell, and Anthony R. DelDonna, eds.
Music as Cultural Mission: Explorations of Jesuit Practices in Italy and North America.
Philadelphia, PA: Saint Joseph's University Press, 2014.

A window into the world of Jesuit music production, practices, and patronage.

McCabe, William.
An Introduction to the Jesuit Theater.
Ed. Louis Oldani. Saint Louis, MO: The Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1985.

This posthumous work is somewhat outdated but still the best general work on the subject in English.

O'Malley, John W., and Gauvin Alexander Bailey, eds.
The Jesuits and the Arts, 1540–1773.
Philadelphia, PA: Saint Joseph's University Press, 2005.

A sumptuously produced volume covering Jesuit artistic enterprises worldwide.

Rock, Judith.
Terpsichore at Louis-le-Grand: Baroque Dance and the Jesuit Stage in Paris.
Saint Louis, MO: The Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1996.

The best introduction in English to the history of Jesuit dance.

1
. This and all subsequent citations are from the series
Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu. Monumenta Nadal,
5:364–65.

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Monumenta Ignatiana, Epistolae,
12:310.

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Monumenta Nadal,
4:215.

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Monumenta Nadal,
5:773–74.

4
. See Serafim Leite,
História da Companhia de Jesus no Brasil,
10 vols. (Lisbon: Livraria Portugália, 1938–1950), 2:282n5.

5
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Fontes Narativi,
1:581–82.

1
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Epistolae S. Francisci Xaverii,
2:179–212n12.

John W. O'Malley,
SJ, currently university professor in the theology department of Georgetown University, is a church historian whose specialty is sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. Among his best-known books are
The First Jesuits, Trent and All That, Four Cultures of the West, What Happened at Vatican II, A History of the Popes,
and
Trent. The First Jesuits,
translated into ten languages, won both the Jacques Barzun Prize for cultural history and the Philip Schaff Prize for church history. John O'Malley was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995 and to the American Philosophical Society in 1997. He is past president of the American Catholic Historical Association and the Renaissance Society of America. A Catholic priest and member of the Society of Jesus, Father O'Malley has received lifetime achievement awards from the Renaissance Society of America, the Society for Italian Historical Studies, and the American Catholic Historical Association.

Posthumous portrait of Ignatius of Loyola by Jacopino del Conte, 1556. Courtesy of the Curia Generalizia of the Society of Jesus, Rome.