RIBADENEIRA Petro R.P., Historia vitae divi Patriarchae Ignatii de Lojola, Societatis Jesu institutoris.

Historia vitae divi Patriarchae Ignatii de Lojola, Societatis Jesu institutoris.

Quam juxta editiionem Anni MDCII Coloniae Agrippinae, denuo in lucem dedit. Bibliotheca Ignatiana Societatis Jesu. Viennae Austriae 1744. typis Maria Evae Schilgin Viduae. 23 x 17 cm), pp. [14], 336, [20], copperplate engraving on frontispiece, initials, period binding.
Rubbing of the binding, copy with traces of dampness, yellow and rust stains on pages, handwritten signature on title page, small tear on front pastedown. The frontispiece is the work of the Viennese Franciscan Innozenz Moscherosch (1697-1772). A later Viennese edition of the biography of Ignatius Loyola (1491 - 1556) by Pedro Ribadeneyra (1527-1611), first published in Naples in 1572. Although the Toledo-born biographer and historian originally wrote his work on Loyola in Spanish (a 132-page manuscript survives), the first edition was in Latin (a revised Spanish edition was not published until 1583). In his work, Ribadeneyra claimed that Ignatius Loyola did not perform any miracle, other than the founding of his Order. In the process of Loyola's canonization, the author's narrative changed, favoring the existence of miracles performed by the Jesuit - he later claimed that at the time of the publication of Loyola's Life he knew of miracles, but did not have sufficient evidence for them.