Conversions, Indipetae and Commerce:
Europe and the World (XVI-XIX)

The COINDICO Project

COINDICO is the result of a joint research group co-financed by ‘Progetti di Ricerca di Interesse Nazionale’ (Prin) 2010–2011, and Miur ('Libertà dei moderni. Processi di civilizzazione nel lungo illuminismo (1750–1850): commercio, politica, cultura, colonie', Prin 20108KZTPX_005).

The research group has analysed from a historical perspective how Europe related to the rest of the world through Catholic missionary practices, commercial strategies and colonial ideologies throughout the modern era.

The project has focused in particular on specific issues of longue durée, such as conversions and the concepts of ‘civilization’ and doux commerce.

The website aims to offer researchers the sources and materials, both published and unpublished, which have served as a basis for this research.

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Letter from Stanislao Giovanni Galizia to Giovanni Rothaan [1/8/1845]

Palermo 1 Ottobre 1845 Molto Reverendo in Cristo Padre Nostro Padre CarissimoLa speranza di poter essere missionario nella mia carissima Cina fu quella, che poi per mezzo del…

Letter from Nicola Aglietta to Giovanni Rothaan [29/9/1845]

Molto Reverendo in Vostro Padre Nostro Generale Mi gode l’animo d’aver occasione sì bella di far giungere alla Paternità Vostra molto Reverenda una mia lettera, e cosi…

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WOMERO

The WOMERO (World Meets Rome) Project collects a variety of accounts of conversion from non-Christian cults to Christianity, most of them hitherto unknown, which were written with the aim of informing the Holy See as to the work of conversion of neophytes from Asia, Africa and North America. Some are printed and some are still in handwritten form.

Indipetae

The Indipetae project presents a large number of indipetae – letters written by young Jesuits who applied to join the missions of the ‘Compagnia’ – dating from the sixteenth to the twentieth century and preserved in the Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, Rome.

Commerce

The project entitled “Commerce, colonies, civilization: global perspective of a European ‘long Enlightenment’ (France, Britain, Central Europe) 1750-1850” is focused on studying the “commercial Enlightenment” and its implications as far as the conceptualization of global history and the relations with non-European peoples, cultures and states are concerned.

Latest inserted documents

Letter from Stanislao Giovanni Galizia to Giovanni Rothaan [1/8/1845]

Palermo 1 Ottobre 1845 Molto Reverendo in Cristo Padre Nostro Padre CarissimoLa speranza di poter essere missionario nella mia carissima Cina fu quella, che poi per mezzo del…

Letter from Nicola Aglietta to Giovanni Rothaan [29/9/1845]

Molto Reverendo in Vostro Padre Nostro Generale Mi gode l’animo d’aver occasione sì bella di far giungere alla Paternità Vostra molto Reverenda una mia lettera, e cosi…

Letter from Vittorio Ferrari to Giovanni Rothaan [27/9/1845]

Molto Reverendo in Cristo Padre Nostro Padre Carissimo L’ultimo dei suoi figliuoli, nonostante la sua incapacità, e poco spirito, disposto com’è a qualunque miseria, non per…

Letter from Luigi Maver to Giovanni Rothaan [3/12/1845]

Molto Reverendo in Cristo Padre Nostro Verona 3 dicembre 1845…

Letter from Giosafat Pavia to [1/10/1845]

Paternità Carissima è lecito da ogni figlio che faccia consapevole ad un suo Padre un qualche desiderio che mantiene dentro il suo cuore. E questo desiderio è il seguente io da…

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