[Scioli, Stefano (2013) Daniello Bartoli, Il Giappone, Edizione critica, [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Culture letterarie, filologiche, storiche: indirizzo "Italianistica" , 25 Ciclo. DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsdottorato/6125.]

La tesi di ricerca ha portato alla realizzazione di un'edizione critica del Giappone di Daniello Bartoli (1660): per la prima volta la «seconda parte» dell'Asia trova, in questo lavoro, una trascrizione integrale condotta con moderni criteri filologi. Quanto all'esegesi la ricerca ha visto la compilazione di tre «Schedari»: un «Indice dei nomi», che vede l'identificazione dei personaggi storici citati esplicitamente nell'opera, ne traccia un rapido profilo biografico e ne fornisce precisa e aggiornata bibliografia. Per quanto riguarda i missionari evocati dall'autore nel testo, questa sezione indica se (e dove) si tratta di personaggio o di fonte (registrando, nel caso, il luogo o i luoghi in cui Bartoli ricorre a tale testimonianza); un «Indice dei luoghi», che dà l'indicazione moderna del luogo citato e ne fornisce il riscontro con i repertori più aggiornati; un «Lessico» riservato ai termini giapponesi presenti nel testo che vengono spiegati e, là dove possibile, studiati nella loro storia, nella loro presenza nella coeva letteratura di viaggio e corredati di utili riferimenti bibliografici. Le pagine introduttive inquadrano l'opera di Bartoli sia nell'orizzonte biografico dell'autore sia nel milieu gesuitico barocco, fornendo puntuali coordinate storiche grazie alle quali recuperare il più ampio contesto delle missioni gesuitiche nell'Estremo Oriente tra Cinque e Seicento. Particolare attenzione è stata riservata al modo di intendere il compito dello storico da parte di Bartoli: una storiografia la sua che s'intreccia in modi affatto peculiari alle diverse forme stilistiche e dinamiche retoriche richieste dalle altre due grandi attività a cui egli dedicò impegno e passione: l'insegnamento e la predicazione.

This research thesis is the accomplishment of the critical edition of Giappone, by Daniello Bartoli (1660): for the first time "the second part" of Asia is fully transcribed through modern philological criteria. About the exegesis, the research work consisted in compiling three "Schedari": - An "Index of names", where historical figures explicitly mentioned in the text are identified with their biographies (that provides the identification of the historical figures explicitely mentioned in the work, tracks their biographical profile and provides a precise and up-to-date bibliography). Concerning the missionaries recalled by the author in the text, this section specifies if (and where) they consist in real figures or sources, reporting the place or the places where the evidence is used by Bartoli; - An "Index of locations (site) that gives a modern indication of the place mentioned in the text and provides a crosscheck with the most up-to-date references; - A "Lexicon" devoted to the Japanese terms found in the text. Here they are explained and, wherever possible, studied in their history (historical meaning), in their presence in the contemporary travel literature and enriched with useful bibliographical references. The introductory pages set the work of Bartoli in the biographical horizon of the author and in the Jesuit Baroque milieu, providing precise historical coordinates through which to retrieve the widest context of the Jesuit missions in the Far East between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Particular attention has been reserved to the way Bartoli proceeded with the assignment of the historian: his historiography is interlaced in a quite peculiar way to the different stylistic forms and to the rhetorical dynamics required by its two other great activities, to which he devoted commitment and passion: Teaching and Preaching.

Local access dig.pdf. [Scioli-Bartoli Giappone.pdf]
Thesis Online.
Online Repository.

Title in Japanese: 近世日本における奴隷問題とイエズス会

氏 名 ホムロ ダ シルバ エハルト
学位の種類 博士（学術）
学位記番号 博甲第２４４号
学位授与の日付 2018 年3 月12日
学位授与大学 東京外国語大学
博士学位論文題目 近世日本における奴隷問題とイエズス会

Local access dig.pdf. [Ehalt-Slavery Japan.pdf]

Kirishitan kyōkai  to Honnōji no hen  キリシタン教会と本能寺の変  /  Asami Masakazu  浅見雅一

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-266).

Includes a Japanese translation of a letter signed by Luís Fróis (1532-1597) that explains the fall of Oda Nobunaga and its aftermath, which served as a supplement to the 1582 annual report on Japan for the Society of Jesus. The author referred to the original from Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu, Jap. Sin. 9-1, ff. 96r.-105v.

日本史上最大の注目を集める「本能寺の変」。その基礎史料の一つ、ルイス・フロイスがイエズス会に送った報告書「一五八二年の日本年報の補遺」は、長年、その信憑性が疑われてきた。本能寺の変が起きた当時、フロイスは九州・口之津にいたからだ。
本書は、キリシタン史研究の第一人者である著者が、イエズス会所蔵のフロイス直筆の原典にあたることで見えてきた、史料の本当の執筆者、そして光秀の意外な素顔に迫る。
これまで指摘されていた、一つの文書であるにもかかわらず光秀の評価が混乱していた理由、日本史の史料には見られない記述の信憑性の高さを、史料をていねいに紹介しながら明らかにする。初のフロイス手書き原典から訳した「一五八二年の日本年報の補遺(改題:信長の死について)」も全収録!

[目 次]
第一章 信長とキリシタン宣教師
第二章 報告書「信長の死について」の成立
第三章 キリシタン史料から本能寺の変をたどる
第四章 光秀の意図
史料編 完訳・ルイス・フロイス「信長の死について」

Abstract:
This thesis explores the history of Christianity and conversion to it in 16th and 17th Century Japan. It argues that conversion is a complex phenomenon which happened for a variety of reasons. Furthermore, it argues that due to the political context and limitations acting upon the mission, the majority of conversions in 16th and 17th Century Japan lacked an element of epistemological change (classically understood). The first chapter explores theories of conversion suggesting that conversion in 16th and 17th Century Japan included sorts of religious change not usually encapsulated in the term conversion including adhesion, communal and forced conversion. Moreover, it argues that contextual factors are the most important factors in religious change. The second chapter explores political context contending that it was the political environment of Japan that ultimately decided whether conversion was possible. This chapter charts the evolution of the Japanese context as it became more hostile toward Christianity. In the third chapter, the context of the mission is explored. It is argued that limitations acting upon the mission shaped post-conversion faith, so that changes to practice and ritual rather than belief became the mark of a successful conversion. The fourth chapter explores methods of conversion, the factors influencing it, and post-conversion faith more directly. It argues that Christianity spread primarily through social networks, but that conversion was also influenced by economic incentive, other realworld benefits, and Christianity’s perceived efficacy. Building on Chapter Three, the final chapter also seeks to illustrate that the missionaries were not successful in their attempts to spur epistemological change or instil a detailed knowledge of theology or doctrine amongst their converts.

See St Andrews Research Repository for more information.
Local access dig.pdf [Morris-Rethinking Conversion Japan.pdf]