Author: VARGAS, A. [=SCIOPPIUS, G.]
Title: Relatio ad reges & principes christianos, de stratagematis et sophismatis politicis societatis jesu [..], in qua Jesuitarum erga reges et populos optime de ipsis meritos infidelitas. Cui accessit L. Cornelii [= J.C. Scotti] europaei Monarchia solipsorum.
Description: 1673 (ed. ultima). 4to. [2], 269 pp. Full calf, richly gilt spine, single filet on both covers (upper corner sl. bumped, stamps on verso title (cancel Royal Library Berlin), paper (esp. first and last leaves) browned and a bit tired, small water stain in margin pp. 217-224). Very nice binding ¶ Handbuch Gelehrtenkultur der Frühen Neuzeit, I.592: Späthumanistischer Philologe, Kontroverstheologe. Gegner der Jesuiten. ¶ J. Mccabe, A Candid history of Jesuits, 1913; p.69: "Schoppe is an ardent anti-Jesuit, [..]. In this case [i.e. in the Relatio: p 40] he calls God to witness that Cardinal Frederic Borromeo [..] said [..] that he had himself found the Jesuit college at Braida so corrupt that he would not suffer any Jesuit to come near him, [..] and would, if he had the power, forbid any Jesuit to teach."

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