Daniello Bartoli

Scholar, born in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, NE Italy. A Jesuit, he wrote the Society's official history Istoria della Compagnia di Gesù (1650–73). He also wrote a number of scientific works in support of Galileo, and rhetorical treatises against the Academy of the Crusca's intransigence, including L'uomo di lettere difeso ed emendato (1645).

Daniello Bartoli (1608 - 1685), Italian Jesuit priest, was born in Ferrara and entered the Society of Jesus in 1623.

Debarred from the foreign mission field, he attained high distinction as a preacher and as a teacher of rhetoric in Genoa, Florence and Rome.

Bartoli's first work, L'huomo di lettere (1645) was a Baroque best seller and made him internationally famous. His major work, a centenary history of his order, Istoria della Compagnia di Gesu (Rome, 1650-1673), in 6 vols., begins with a biography of Ignatius Loyola and is particularly informative on the early missions of the Jesuits in Asia, Japan, and China.

A collected edition of his works, in 12 vols., was published by Manetti at Turin, 1825-1856;