Daniello Bartoli

Italian historian
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Quick Facts
Born:
Feb. 12, 1608, Ferrara, Papal States [Italy]
Died:
Jan. 12, 1685, Rome (aged 76)

Daniello Bartoli (born Feb. 12, 1608, Ferrara, Papal States [Italy]—died Jan. 12, 1685, Rome) was a Jesuit historian and humanist who ranked among classic Italian writers.

Bartoli entered the Society of Jesus in 1623 and wrote the well-known and frequently translated L’uomo di lettere difeso ed emendato (1645; The Learned Man Defended and Reformed). In addition to writing a history of the Jesuits in Italian, Istoria della Compagnia di Gesù (1653–73), Bartoli was the biographer of such Jesuit saints as Ignatius Loyola, Francis Xavier, and Francis Borgia.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Encyclopaedia Britannica.