Pietro Paolo Bombino
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Pietro Paolo Bombino (c. 1575–1648) was an Italian Jesuit, orator, theologian and historian. Bombino was the first biographer of Edmund Campion.[1]
Biography
Born in Cosenza, Calabria, he joined the Jesuits in 1592 and taught Sacred Scripture in Rome. He later left the Society to join the Somaschan Order in which he took vows in 1629.
A prolific author, he served as Ferdinando Gonzaga’s theologian until 1622.[2] Bombino died in 1648, leaving, among other things, a Life of St. Ignatius Loyola (1609) and an abridgment of the History of Spain (1634). He was an admirer of Galileo, with whom he corresponded about measuring latitude.[3]
His biography of Campion, Vita et martyrium Edmundi Campiani, was first published at Antwerp in 1618 and reprinted in an elegant edition in Mantua, in 1620. Bombino drew on several sources including the writings and oral accounts of Campion's fellow missionary Robert Persons.[1] Persons passed his incomplete Of the life and martirdome of Edmund Campion to Bombino and personally assisted him with the writing of his book.[4] Bombino also had access to the various eye-witness testimonies of English Catholic priests still alive: Richard Stanihurst († 1618), Henry Holland († 1625), John Colleton († 1635) and Thomas Fitzherbert († 1640).[4]
Richard Simpson, the modern biographer of Campion, made full use of Bombino (as his notebooks show).
Sources
This article incorporates public domain material from McClintock, John; Strong, James (1867–1887). Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. Harper and Brothers.
Notes
- ^ a b Kilroy, Gerard (30 November 2011). "Edmundus Campianus Oxoniensis". ThinkingFaith.org.
- ^ Grendler, Paul F. (2009). The University of Mantua, the Gonzaga, and the Jesuits, 1584–1630. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 156. doi:10.1353/book.3437.
- ^ Thomas F. Mayer, ed. (2012). The Trial of Galileo, 1612-1633. University of Toronto Press. p. 18. ISBN 9781442605213.
- ^ a b Kilroy, Gerard (2016). Edmund Campion. A Scholarly Life. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781351964692.