Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: A New Society and Its Jesuits, 1540–1640 1
4. 1. Vocation and Entry 18
5. 2. Candidates for Overseas Missions 52
6. 3. Being a Jesuit in the “Indies” 86
7. 4. On the Italian Home Front 115
8. 5. Deaths and Departures 146
9. Afterword: Writing Jesuit Lives 173
10. Notes 179
11. Acknowledgments 255
12. Index 259