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Having translated, as it is reported, devotional books into his native language for the use of both his classmates and the offspring of noble families of Chios since his early teenage years, the Jesuit Tommaso Stanislao Velasti developed as a young man an important translation activity, acting as a “missionary” translator “for the benefit of the Chiot Catholics”. After having adapted the eighth "treatise" of the first part of Alonso Rodríguez’s "Ejercicio de perfección y virtudes cristianas" and the almost neglected Neo-Latin poem "De Ira Libri Tres" by Lieven de Meyer in 1746 and 1747, respectively, Velasti undertook the translation into the Greco-Chiot dialect of a most popular French book of devotion, known mainly under the title "La journée du chrétien sanctifiée par la prière et la méditation". The book, which was written by the Jesuit Jean-Claude de Ville (or Deville) but for the most part used to be published anonymously, was also a European publication success having been translated into German, Italian and Spanish. The distinctiveness of the Greek edition, addressed to "the unlearned and the women, but also to those who wish to gather themselves together [in prayer],” is that, despite its title (“The day of the Christian sanctified through prayer and meditation”), it actually follows a remarkably small part of "La Journée," adding to it Dominique Bouhours’s "Pensées chrétiennes" – an addition that comes quite early in the editorial history of de Ville’s work. Moreover, in spite of Velasti’s declaration of authorship in the Preface of the book (his name is not mentioned on the cover), from the second edition onwards the Jesuit Giovanni Antonio d'Andria, who had financed the first edition, appears as the writer. The aim of my paper is to describe the Modern Greek adventure of "La Journée": to highlight the distinctiveness of the Greek edition, to discuss its successive authorial identities and to propose its possible models. *Numbers indicate the slide transitions. Click on the "Presentation" file. International Symposium on Jesuit Studies "Circa Missiones: Jesuit Understandings of Mission through the Centuries", Lisbon | June 12-14, 2023. Session: "Facing the Infidels: Jesuit Missions and the Ottoman Empire", June 12, 2023 https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/centers/iajs/programs/international-symposia/2023---lisbon/symposium-panels.html
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