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This volume explores the career and life of Luke Wadding, one of the most prominent Irishmen of the early-modern period. It assesses the many roles played by Wadding at the Papal Curia, and how he succeeded to build a network of influential and wealthy figures around him.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Father Luke Wadding — A Multifaced Irishman in a Global World Part I: Wadding and the Iberian Peninsula 2. Irish Franciscans and the Santiago Province of Spain 3. "Learned, Attached and Reliable": Luke Wadding, Agent of the Spanish Monarchy Part II: Wadding and the Roman Context 4. Discovering Migration in the Seventeenth Century: Propaganda Fide, the Holy Office and Foreigners 5. Not Only a "Hibernese" in the Urbs: Luke Wadding and His Entourage in Seventeenth-Century Rome Part III: The Cultural World of Wadding 6. The Development of Libraries in the Seventeenth Century: Luke Wadding’s Library 7. Luke Wadding: A Life in and for Books 8. Luke Wadding and Scholars for the Arts in Seventeenth-Century Rome 9. The Wadding Circle and the History of Political Thought Part IV: Wadding and Ireland 10. Wadding and the Irish Tombs in St. Pietro in Montorio 11. The Vita Waddingi and the Memory of Confederate and Cromwellian Ireland 12. Conclusion
About the author
Matteo Binasco is an adjunct professor at the Università per gli Stranieri of Siena.
Summary
This volume explores the career and life of Luke Wadding, one of the most prominent Irishmen of the early-modern period. It assesses the many roles played by Wadding at the Papal Curia, and how he succeeded to build a network of influential and wealthy figures around him.
