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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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