Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 6 and 7 (of 7): The Catholic ReactionSymonds, John Addington
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Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 6 and 7 (of 7): The Catholic Reaction
Symonds, John Addington
Catholic Church -- Italy -- History; Renaissance -- Italy
ITALY:
its political conditions in 1494, i. 2 _sqq._;
the five members of its federation, 3;
how the federation was broken up, 11;
the League between Clement VII. and Charles V., 31;
review of the settlement of Italy effected by Emperor
and Pope, 45 _sqq._;
extinction of republics, 47;
economical and social condition of the Italians under
Spanish hegemony, 48;
intellectual life, 51;
predominance of Spain and Rome, 53 _sqq._;
Italian servitude, 58;
the evils of Spanish rule, 59 _sqq._;
seven Spanish devils in Italy, 61;
changes wrought by the Counter-Reformation, 64 _sqq._;
criticism and formalism, 65;
transition from the Renaissance to the Catholic Revival, _ib._;
attitude of Italians towards the German Reformation, 71.
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JESUITS, Order of:
its importance in the Counter-Reformation, i. 229;
the Diacatholicon, 231;
works on the history of the Order, 231 _n._;
sketch of the life of Ignatius Loyola, 231 _sqq._;
the first foundation of the _Exercitia_, 236;
Peter Faber and Francis Xavier, 239;
the vows taken by Ignatius and his neophytes at Paris, 240;
their proposed mission to the Holy Land, 241;
their visits to Venice and Rome, 242 _sq._;
the name of the Order, 244;
negotiations in Rome, 245;
the fourth vow, 246;
the constitutions approved by Paul III., 247;
the Directorium of Lainez, 249;
the original limit of the number of members, _ib._;
Loyola's administration, 250;
asceticism deprecated, 251;
worldly wisdom of the founder, 253;
rapid spread of the Order, 254;
the Collegium Romanum, 255;
Collegium Germanicum, _ib._;
the Order deemed rivals by the Dominicans in Spain, _ib._;
successes in Portugal, 256;
difficulties in France, 257;
in the Low Countries, _ib._;
in Bavaria and Austria, 258;
Loyola's dictatorship, 259;
his adroitness in managing distinguished members of his Order, 260;
statistics of the Jesuits at Loyola's death, _ib._;
the autocracy of the General, 261;
Jesuit precepts on obedience, 263 _sq._;
addiction to Catholicism, 266;
the spiritual drill of the _Exercitia Spiritualia_, 267;
materialistic imagination, 268;
psychological adroitness of the method, 269;
position and treatment of the novice, 270;
the Jesuit Hierarchy, 271;
the General, 272;
five sworn spies to watch him, 273;
a system of espionage through the Order, 274;
position of a Jesuit, _ib._;
the Black Pope, 275;
the working of the Jesuit vow of poverty, 275 _sq._;
revision of the Constitutions by Lainez, 277;
the question about the _Monita Secreta_, 277 _sqq._;
estimate of the historical importance of the Jesuits, 280 _sq._;
their methods of mental tyranny, 281;
Jesuitical education, 282;
desire to gain the control of youth, 283;
their general aim the aggrandizement of the Order, 284;
treatment of _etudes fortes_, _ib._;
admixture of falsehood and truth, 285;
sham learning and sham art, 286;
Jesuit morality, 287;
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