PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER I. 1500-40. ORIGIN OF THE ORDER.
CHAPTER II. 1540-52. CONSTITUTIONS OF THE SOCIETY. [17]
CHAPTER III. 1540-53. HIERARCHY.
CHAPTER IV. 1541-48. THE PROGRESS OF THE ORDER, AND ITS FIRST GENERAL.
CHAPTER V. 1547-1631. THE FEMALE JESUITS.
CHAPTER VI. 1548-56. THE FIRST OPPOSITION TO THE ORDER, AND DEATH OF LOYOLA.
CHAPTER VII. 1541-1774. MISSIONS.
CHAPTER VIII. 1556-1581. THE SECOND, THIRD, AND FOURTH GENERALS OF THE ORDER.
CHAPTER IX. 1560-1600. PROCEEDINGS OF THE JESUITS IN THE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES OF EUROPE. ENGLAND.
CHAPTER X. 1581-1608. COMMOTION AMONG THE JESUITS.
CHAPTER XI. 1600-1700. DOCTRINES AND MORAL CODE OF THE JESUITS.
CHAPTER XII. 1608-1700. OVERGROWING INFLUENCE OF THE SOCIETY.
CHAPTER XIII. 1600-1753. AMERICAN MISSIONS.
CHAPTER XIV. 1617-1700. INTERNAL CAUSES OF DECLINE.
CHAPTER XV. 1700-1772. DOWNFALL OF THE JESUITS.
CHAPTER XVI. 1773 ABOLITION OF THE ORDER.
CHAPTER XVII. 1774 DEATH OF CLEMENT XIV.
CHAPTER XVIII. 1773-1814. THE JESUITS DURING THEIR SUPPRESSION.
CHAPTER XIX. 1814 RE-ESTABLISHMENT.
CHAPTER XX. 1848-1852. THE JESUITS IN AND AFTER 1848.
CONCLUSION.
FOOTNOTES
INDEX.
Transcriber's Note
HISTORY OF THE JESUITS:
THEIR ORIGIN,
PROGRESS, DOCTRINES, AND DESIGNS.
BY
G. B. NICOLINI,
OF ROME,
AUTHOR OF “THE HISTORY OF THE PONTIFICATE OF PIUS IX.,”
“THE LIFE OF FATHER GAVAZZI,” ETC.
LONDON:
HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
1854.
PRINTED BY HARRISON AND SONS:
LONDON GAZETTE OFFICE. ST. MARTIN’S LANE.
