The University of Mantua, the Gonzaga, and the Jesuits, 1584-1630

• Main Author: Grendler, Paul F. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2009
• Subjects: European history; European history: Renaissance
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Universities were driving forces of change in late Renaissance Italy. The Gonzaga, the ruling family of Mantua, had long supported scholarship and dreamed of founding an institution of higher learning within the city. In the early seventeenth century they joined forces with the Jesuits, a powerful i...