1533
Antonio Possevino, Italian diplomat (died 1611)
Antonio Possevino, Italian diplomat (died 1611)
Antonio Possevino, Italian diplomat (died 1611)
Antonio Possevino
Jesuit controversialist, encyclopedist and bibliographer
- Born
- 1533
Antonio Possevino was a Jesuit protagonist of Counter-Reformation, serving as a papal diplomat, Jesuit controversialist, polemicist, encyclopedist, and bibliographer. He was the first Jesuit to visit Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Livonia, Hungary, Pomerania, and Saxony in amply documented papal missions between 1578 and 1586 where he championed the enterprising policies of Pope Gregory XIII.