Vincenzo Vozza

Recent historiography has focused on identifying the themes that over time have given substance to the broader framework of anti-Jesuit literature, with the aim of detecting the most widespread arguments used within the Catholic Church against Company of Jesus. To examine the phenomenon, limited to the Venetian context, this essay focalises on an unpublished text, the treatise of Giovanni Fatò On the hypocrisy of the Jesuits, to be found in a miscellaneous codex of the Herzog August Bibliothek of Wolfenbüttel...