‎(ZAHOROWSKI, J.)‎
‎Les Intrigues secrettes des Jésuites, traduites du Monita secreta; où l'on a joint l'Extrait de la Faculté de Théologie de Paris de l'an 1554. Et la prophétie de Sainte Hildegarde, morte en 1181.‎

‎Turin, Jacques Daniel, bon sujet du Prince, à l'enseigne de la vérité, 1718. Title printed in red and black. (4), 66, (2) pp. 12mo. Modern boards. Conlon 18:757; Lacouture, Les Jésuites, ii, pp. 85-88. First edition. Important work forming part of the campaign against the Jesuits. The Monita Secreta was a guide allegedly written by the Jesuits explaining how to gain riches and make influential friends; bibliographers often attribute it to a Pole, Jerome Zaorowsky, exiled from the Society in 1611 and who became 'curé d'une paroisse de Silésie. S'inspirent très librement des lettres adressées, sous le titre Monita generalia, aux membres de la Compagnie par le 'général' (alors Mutius Vitelleschi), Zahorowski rédigea les Monita Secreta (Instructions secrètes) où il prétendait dévoiler les méthodes par lesquelles la Société de Jésus fondait sa puisance en captant aussi bien les héritages que les confiances' (Lacouture). The Monita Secreta were first published in 1612 in Crakow with subsequent editions published in Prague and Padova. The ecclestiastical authorities had denounced the publication as a forgery from day one, but nevertheless another edition was published in 1761, shortly before the Jesuits were expelled from France, and in the context of the governement's campaign against the Jesuits the work had an immense success. - Inner margin of title strengthened. Date and number in old ink in upper margin of title. ‎

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