Antonio Possevino, Italian priest and diplomat (born 1533)

Antonio Possevino

Jesuit controversialist, encyclopedist and bibliographer

Antonio Possevino was a Jesuit protagonist of Counter Reformation as a papal diplomat and a Jesuit controversialist, polemicist, encyclopedist, and bibliographer. He was the first Jesuit to visit Muscovy, Sweden, Denmark, Livonia, Hungary, Pomerania, and Saxony in amply…