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In 1583, five Jesuit brothers set out with the intention of founding a new church and mission in India. Their dream was almost immediately, and brutally, terminated by local opposition. When their massacre was announced in Rome, it was treated as martyrdom. Francesco Benci, professor of rhetoric at the Collegium Romanum, immediately set about celebrating their deaths in a new type of epic, distinct from, yet dependent upon, the classical tradition: Quinque martyres e Societate Iesu in India.
This is the first critical edition and translation of this important text. The commentary highlights both the classical sources and the historical and religious context of the mission. The introduction outlines Benci's career and stresses his role as the founder of this vibrant new genre.
This volume is the first one for a new subseries in the 'Jesuit Studies' series: 'Jesuit Neo-Latin Library'.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Introduction
The Scope of this Book
A Note on the Text and Commentary
A Note on the Vocabulary
Part 1 Francesco Benci and the Heroic Impulse
Francesco Benci, Professor of Rhetoric
The Portuguese and Jesuits in Goa and Salcete
The Five Companions: Talis ab Vrlini coetus se fuderat urbe (QM. 5.606)
Synopsis of the Quinque martyres
The Quinque martyres and the Epic Tradition
Benci and Virgil
Amplificatio
Benci and Contemporary Neo-Latin Epic: Vida's Christiad and Barga's Syrias
Ekphrasis in the Quinque martyres
The Later Reception of the Quinque martyres
Part 2 The Quinque martyres
Book 1. Text and Translation
Book 2. Text and Translation
Book 3. Text and Translation
Book 4. Text and Translation
Book 5. Text and Translation
Book 6. Text and Translation
Commentary
Appendix 1. Prefatory Letter and Liminary Verses
Appendix 2. A Poetic Altercation and Reconciliation
Appendix 3. Report of the Massacre by Niccolò Orlandini (Latin)
Appendix 4. Report of the Massacre by Alessandro Valignano (Italian)
Appendix 5. Verses below the Five Engravings of English Martyrdom Prefaced to Ecclesiae militantis triumphi
Bibliography
Index of Proper Names
Index Locorum Citatorum