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Imagines pr‘positorum generalium Societatis Jesu = Ritratti de' prepositi generali della Compagnia di Ges— / delineat‘, & ‘reis formis express‘ ab Arnoldo van Westerhout addita perbrevi uniuscujusque vit‘ descriptione a P. Nicolao Galeotti sacerdote ejusdem Societatis

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Title: Imagines pr‘positorum generalium Societatis Jesu = Ritratti de' prepositi generali della Compagnia di Ges— / delineat‘, & ‘reis formis express‘ ab Arnoldo van Westerhout addita perbrevi uniuscujusque vit‘ descriptione a P. Nicolao Galeotti sacerdote ejusdem Societatis
Creator: Galeotti, Niccol•, 1692-1758
Contributor: Westerhout, Arnold van, 1651-1725
Publication Information: Rom‘: sumptibus Venantii Monaldini bibliopol‘ in Via lata ([Rom‘]: ex Typographia Bernabo', et Lazzarini)
Contributing Institution: Loyola Marymount University, Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library
Collection: Jesuit Rare Book and Manuscript Collection
Rights Information: Materials in the Department of Archives and Special Collections may be subject to copyright. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, Loyola Marymount University does not claim ownership of the copyright of any materials in its collections. Please refer to: https://library.lmu.edu/archivesandspecialcollections/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Description: Title in red and black; title and text enclosed within double rule border; Monaldini's woodcut Pegasus device with motto "Perennitas laudis" on title pages. Engravings: added title-page with Jesuit device; the first 14 portraits engraved by Westerhout; the last portrait engraved by Westerhout's pupil Jakob Frey after Pietro Nelli. The 14th portrait is signed: "Antonius Odatij Romanus pinx., Arnoldus van Westerhout sculp." Each plate faces a page of text, Latin and Italian in double columns. Full-page engraved portraits of the first 15 Superior Generals of the Jesuits: St. Ignatius Loyola, Diego Lai?nez, St. Francisco de Borja, Everard Mercurian, Claudio Aquaviva, Muzio Vitelleschi, Vincenzo Carafa, Francesco Piccolomini, Alessandro Gottifredi, Goswin Nickel, Giovanni Paolo Oliva, Charles de Noyelle, Tirso Gonza?lez, Michelangelo Tamburini, and Franz Retz. Half light-brown calf and brown cloth over boards; blue/red sprinkled edges.
Type: text
Format: image/tiff
Identifier: 82e59036-db86-4b17-8193-113a5ff0ee91
https://digitalcollections.lmu.edu/documents/detail/6646
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Language: Latin
Italian
Subject: Jesuits--Biography
Jesuits--Portraits
Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint, 1491-1556
Lai?nez, Diego, 1512-1565
Borja, Francisco de, Saint, 1510-1572
Mercurian, Everard, 1514-1580
Acquaviva, Claudio, 1543-1615
Vitelleschi, Muzio, 1563-1645
Carafa, Vincenzo, 1585-1649
Piccolomini, Francesco, 1582-1651
Gottifredi, Alessandro, 1595-1652
Nickel, Goswin, 1584-1664
Oliva, Giovanni Paolo, 1600-1681
De Noyelle, Charles, 1615-1686
Gonza?lez de Santalla, Tirso, 1624-1705
Tamburini, Michelangelo, 1647-1730
Retz, Franz, 1673-1750
Biographies
Place: Rome (Italy)
Source: Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University
Relation: Jesuit Rare Book and Manuscript Collection

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