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Autre forme de titre : Jesuit foundations and Medici power, fifteen-thirty two - sixteen twenty-one

The beginning of the third Medici regime (1532-69) ; The grand duchy, Francesco I-Cosimo II (1574-1621) ; The first Tuscan Jesuits ; The college in Florence: opening, funding, and relationship to the Medici (1550s-1620s) ; The colleges in Siena and Montepulciano (1550s-1620s) ; The colleges in operation (1550s-1620s) ; Was the enterprise a success? ; Tuscan Jesuits (1540s-1700) ; Tuscan Jesuit College libraries (1565-78).

Jesuit Foundations and Medici Power, 1532-1621, focuses on the cooperation between two new foundations, the last Medici state and the Society of Jesus, spanning nearly a century, concentrating on the Jesuit foundations in Florence, Siena, and Montepulciano. As the Medici built and centralized their power in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, they sought to control both the civic and religious behavior of their citizens. They found partners in the Jesuits, whose educational program helped establish social order and maintain religious orthodoxy. Via a detailed investigation of both minor and major Italian Jesuit colleges, and of multiple Medici rulers, Kathleen M. Comerford provides insight into church/state cooperation in an age in which both institutions underwent significant changes