Jesuit Foundations and Medici Power, 1532–1621

Kathleen M. Comerford, Ph.D. (1995), University of Wisconsin, is Professor of European Religious History at Georgia Southern University. Her publications on Tuscan religious history include Reforming Priests and Parishes: Tuscan Dioceses in the First Century of Seminary Education (Brill, 2006).

• Acknowledgments and PermissionsTechnical ConsiderationsList of Tables and ChartsIntroduction1. The Beginning of the Third Medici Regime (1532–69)2. The Grand Duchy, Francesco I–Cosimo II (1574–1621)3. The First Tuscan Jesuits4. The College in Florence: Opening, Funding, and Relationship to the Medici (1550s–1620s)5. The Colleges in Siena and Montepulciano (1550s–1620s)6. The Colleges in Operation (1550s–1620s)7. Was the Enterprise a Success? (1540–1621)Appendix 1 Tuscan Jesuits (1540s–1700)Appendix 2 Tuscan Jesuit College Libraries (1565–78)Bibliography

“With this well documented and readable study, Kathleen Comerford […] has added to our understanding of Jesuit educational roles and their partial but almost essential support from some of the Medici family.”Christopher F. Black, University of Glasgow. In: Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, Vol. 86, Fasc. 172 (2017/II), pp. 564–566.“Insgesamt liegt eine Forschungs- und Syntheseleistung vor, die künftig nicht nur bei Forschungen zur Jesuitenprovinz Toskana, sondern auch bei bibliotheksgeschichtlichen Analysen zur Gesellschaft Jesu als verlässlicher Ausgangspunkt dienen kann.”Fabian Fechner, FernUniversität in Hagen. In: Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung, Vol. 45, No. 2 (2018), pp. 396–398.