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    Antonio Possevino (Antonius Possevinus) (10 July 1533 – 26 February 1611) was a Jesuit protagonist of Counter Reformation as a papal diplomat and a Jesuit...
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  • legitimacy of the interdict were the Jesuits Robert Bellarmine and Antonio Possevino. There had been previous interdicts laid on Venice. In 1202 the Venetian...
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    title by their father, and in August 1581, the papal envoy in Russia, Antonio Possevino, was ordered to be told by the tsar that Russian documents did not...
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    Riberius, 1586 in 2 vols. (very rare work; but wholly included in Antonio Possevino, Bibliotheca Selecta Qua Agitur De Ratione Studiorum in Historia,...
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    siege of Pskov. The truce was concluded with help of papal legate Antonio Possevino and was signed for the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by King of Poland...
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    pilgrimage journey". Another version is reported by the papal diplomat Antonio Possevino. According to him, in November 1581 in the Alexandrov Kremlin, Ivan...
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    extensive destruction of Moscow is further confirmed by the papal legate Antonio Possevino who reported a population of no more than 30 thousand individuals...
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  • executed on a treason charge. He is considered a Catholic martyr by Antonio Possevino, in his Apparatus Sacer. He belonged to a Lancashire family and was...
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    campaign. It also shows the papal legate, the black-robed Jesuit Antonio Possevino. Matejko exhibited it in Prague and for it was made an academician...
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    tasks such as sewing and cooking. In 1577, the Papal envoy to Sweden, Antonio Possevino, suggested that the children of King John III of Sweden be married...
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    situation. In 1578-79 and 1579–80, she received the papal ambassador Antonio Possevino. He had been given the task of providing Catherine with her Sforza...
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    Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-511-36800-4. Possevino, A. (2010). The Moscovia of Antonio Possevino, S.J.: Translated with a Critical Introduction...
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  • 1581, Andrey Shchelkalov conducted negotiations with a papal legate Antonio Possevino, and with the English ambassador Jerome Bowes in 1583, which would...
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    represented by Fulvio Cardulo among the first, and afterwards by Antonio Possevino, Giovanni Pietro Maffei, Francesco Benci, Orazio Torsellino, Stefano...
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  • reunion of the Swedish Church with the Holy See. But though the Jesuit Antonio Possevino was sent to Stockholm to complete John's conversion, John would only...
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  • liberal arts, 15–18, by the Mantuan Jesuit humanist and bibliographer Antonio Possevino.[citation needed] From Pandectae, a compendium Eisenstein 1980, p...
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  • bibliographical guide first published in 1597 and written by Antonio Possevino. Possevino was a major figure in the diplomatic and intellectual life of...
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    years, Báthory, with Pope Gregory XVIII's approval, made a plan with Antonio Possevino for the liberation of Ottoman Hungary by a well organized (mostly...
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    omnium procuranda) is a bibliographical encyclopedia by the Jesuit Antonio Possevino, printed in two folio volumes at the Typographia Apostolica Vaticana...
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    to it and forged contacts between the abbey and Rome. The Jesuit Antonio Possevino, as Papal Legate, reformed it in 1580. At this occasion, the abbess...
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    likely took place in connection to the visit of the papal legate Antonio Possevino to Sweden in 1577. In the summer of 1578, a Spanish ambassador, Francisco...
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  • Maximilian II (b. 1528) 1608 – John Still, English bishop (b. 1543) 1611 – Antonio Possevino, Italian priest and diplomat (b. 1533) 1625 – Anna Vasa of Sweden...
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    lands. 1578: Heinrich von Staden German soldier, in oprichnina 1586: Antonio Possevino Papal diplomat 1589: Richard Hakluyt published voyages of the Muscovy...
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    gains in Livonia. Subsequent negotiations led by Jesuit papal legate Antonio Possevino resulted in the 1582 Truce of Jam Zapolski between Russia and the...
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  • and English Richard Hooker – Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie Antonio Possevino – Bibliotheca selecta Daniel Cramer – Plagium Thomas Kyd (probably...
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  • inconclusive siege led to negotiations, which with the aid of papal legate Antonio Possevino ended in the peace of Jam Zapolski in which the Tsar renounced his...
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  • (d. 1582) 1517 – Odet de Coligny, French cardinal (d. 1571) 1533 – Antonio Possevino, Italian diplomat (d. 1611) 1592 – Pierre d'Hozier, French genealogist...
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    Gesner rejected the medieval quest for orthodoxy. Ironically, Jesuit Antonio Possevino used Bibliotheca universalis as a basis to create a list of forbidden...
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  • armistice was arranged in Jam Zapolski in 1582 by the papal legate Antonio Possevino. The Russians evacuated all the Livonian castles they had captured...
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    do jednej zbawiennej wiary (A Call for One Redeeming Faith, 1611) Antonio Possevino Stanisław of Skarbimierz Szymon Starowolski His surname Skarga (in...
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