# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/antonio-possevino
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:31:22.974Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/antonio-possevino"
name: "Antonio Possevino"
slug: "antonio-possevino"
description: "Antonio Possevino was a Jesuit protagonist of Counter-Reformation, serving as a papal diplomat, Jesuit controversialist, polemicist, encyclopedist, and bibliographer. He was the first Jesuit to visit Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Livonia, Hungary, Pomerania, and Saxony in amply documented papal missions between 1578 and 1586 where he championed the enterprising policies of Pope Gregory XIII."
tagline: "Italian diplomat (1533–1611)"
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gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1533-07-10"
deathDate: "1611-02-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           18.434128
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump