MAFFEI, Giovanni Pietro (Giampietro). Bergamo 1533 — Tivoli 20.10.1603. Father. S.J. Italian Jesuit Historian. Born in a noble family living in poverty, son of Lattanzio Maffei and his wife, née Zanchi. Educated by two maternal uncles and in Rome. From 1563 worked as Professor of Rhetorics in Genoa, before joining Jesuits in 1565. From now on studies in Rome, ordained 1571. From 1566 Professor of Rhetorics at Collegium Romanum. In 1579-84 in Lisbon studying colonial history. Then living in Rome concentrating on literary work.
Publications: Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI. Rerum a Societate Jesu in Oriente gestarum tractatus. Florence 1588 and several editions, Italian translation 1589.
– A biography of Loyola (1585) and other works; Petri Maffeii Bergomatis e Societate Iesu opera omnia Latine scripta, nunc primum in unum corpus collecta. 1-2. Verona 1747.
Sources: St. Andretta, D.B.I. 67, 2006 (Treccani); biography in Op. omnia. 1747; Grokipedia; Wikipedia with portrait (details in French and Italian versions).
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