Educating the Catholic People

David Salomoni, Ph.D. (2017, University of Rome III and Université d’Avignon) is post-doc researcher for the ERC project “Rutter: Making the Earth Global” at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He has published monographs and articles in the fields of history of education and science, history of religious orders, gender studies, and social and political history of pre-modern Italy. In 2017 he was awarded the Galileo Galilei prize for young scholars by the Rotary International.

• List of MapsIntroduction1 State of Research and Historiographical Problems1 Educating the Modern Catholics?: Roots of Catholic Schools in Renaissance Italy (15th–16th cc.)1 The Last Phase of Communal Education in Italy1.1 Complexity of the Renaissance Communal School System1.2 Weaknesses of the Renaissance Communal School System2 The Catholicization of Italian Education2 Historical Paths: The Definition of Pedagogical Identities (16th–17th cc.)1 Male Religious Orders1.1 An Educational Benchmark: The Jesuits1.2 The Barnabites1.3 The Somascans1.4 The Piarists1.5 The Theatines and the Servites2 Female Religious Orders2.1 The Ursulines2.2 The Angelic Sisters and the Guastalla College2.3 Rosa Venerini and Lucia Filippini: The Pious Teachers3 Schools and Colleges: Processes of Settlement in Italy and Contiguous Areas1 From Lombardy to the Kingdom of France2 Schools for Northern Italy and Small Towns3 A Congregation for the Large Cities4 Between Central, Southern and Eastern Europe5 The Franciscans between Continuity and Rupture4 Different Types of Schools Operated by Religious Orders1 Public Education Entrusted to Religious Orders and Secular Priests1.1 Udine and the Barnabites: On the Outskirts of the Peninsula1.2 Jesuits and Piarists in the Duchy of Modena: A Competition between Local Networks1.3 Guastalla: A Multi-layered Religious Education for the Community2 Episcopal Requests2.1 The Somascans Between Schools and Diocesan Seminaries3 Other Types of Schools Operated by Religious Orders3.1 Barnabite Schools Established by Notables and Aristocrats3.2 The Religious as Private Teachers3.3 Women, Nuns, Teachers: The ‘Educandato’ of Saint Charles5 The End of an Educational Season: The Schools of Religious Orders between Scientific and Political Revolutions (17th–18th cc.)1 The Scientific Culture: Religious Orders on the Eve of Modernity1.1 Famiano Michelini and the Galilean Piarists1.2 Baranzano Redento2 School Reforms in the Age of Enlightenment2.1 The European Situation2.2 The Situation in Italy: The Italian States and the Religious Orders3 ConclusionBibliographyIndex