The Jesuits, 1534-1921 A History of the Society of Jesus from Its Foundation to the Present Time
CHAPTER XII
FROM VITELLESCHI TO RICCI 1615-1773
Pupils in the Thirty Years War--Caraffa; Piccolomini; Gottifredi--Mary Ward--Alleged decline of the Society-- John Paul Oliva--Jesuits in the Courts of Kings--John Casimir--English Persecutions. Luzancy and Titus Oates-- Jesuit Cardinals--Gallicanism in France--Maimbourg--Dez-- Troubles in Holland. De Noyelle and Innocent XI-- Attempted Schism in France--González and Probabilism--Don Pedro of Portugal--New assaults of Jansenists-- Administration of Retz--Election of Ricci--The Coming Storm 387-423