Giovanni Grassi

Georgetown's Second Founder (eBook, ePUB)

Fr. Giovanni Grassi's News on the Present Condition of the Republic of the United States of North America
Übersetzer: Severino, Roberto

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Observations on the new American republic by an early president of Georgetown University

"The publication of Fr. Grassi's 1818 account of his time in the United States gives us an Italian Jesuit version of Tocqueville, with useful observations on everything from slavery and the climate to housing design and religion. A marvelous achievement."-John McGreevy, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History, University of Notre Dame, and author of American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global

"In his remarkably perceptive account of virtually every important aspect of the young United States, Giovanni Grassi anticipates Tocqueville by two decades. . .The book is a great read."-John W. O'Malley, SJ, university professor, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Georgetown University

"The role of the Society of Jesus in the history of American Catholicism cannot be overstated. Through the lens of the Italian Jesuit Giovanni Grassi-former rector of Georgetown College and superior of the Maryland Mission-we gain considerable insight into the place of Catholicism in the United States during the early nineteenth century. Combined with Robert Curran's informative foreword, Grassi's observations bring new light to the Jesuit experience of a nascent Catholic Church in a predominantly Protestant country."-Michael Pasquier, Jaak Seynaeve Professor of Christian Studies and associate professor of religious studies and history, Louisiana State University

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Georgetown University Press
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781647120443
• Artikelnr.: 61302930

Autorenporträt

Father Giovanni Antonio Grassi was born in Schilpario, in the region of Lombardy, Italy, in 1775. He studied in the seminary of Bergamo and joined the Jesuits as a novice in 1799. In 1810 he traveled to the United States, where he met John Carroll, Bishop of Baltimore. Grassi served as president of Georgetown University from 1812 to 1817. He returned to Italy in 1817, where he died in Rome in 1849.

Roberto Severino is a professor emeritus of Italian at Georgetown University.

Robert Emmett Curran is a professor emeritus of history at Georgetown University and is the author of the three-volume series A History of Georgetown University (Georgetown University Press, 2010).