Giovanni Pietro Maffei

Giovan Pietro Maffei (* 1533, † 1603) was the holder of the chair of eloquence in Genoa and Secretary of the Republic of Genoa.

Maffei took effect on August 26, 1565 in the Jesuit order and was the next six years at the Collegium Romanum Board. In the following years he published, especially in the field of historiography.

Works

• History of Indian Jesuit mission with a collection of letters from the Same. (1585, Latin )
• Life story of St. Ignatius ( 1588 Latin)
• Life stories of 17 confessors of Christ ( 1595, Italian )
• History of the pontificate of Gregory XIII; given for a revision of Paul Teggioc 1742 by K. Cocquelines in pressure. ( Italian)
• From Clement VIII commissioned the story about Gregor continue XIII.

It created three books on Sixtus V. They remained unfinished due to his death. ( 1746 in Bergamo printed )