Olin, John C.,

The Catholic reformation: Savonarola to Ignatius Loyola; : reform in the Church 1495-1540 / [by] John C. Olin. - [1st ed.]. - New York, : Harper & Row, c1969. - xxvi, 220 p. : illus., facsims., ports. ; 25 cm.

A selection of documents in English translation with background material.

"Bibliographical postscript": p. [212]-214. Bibliographical footnotes.

Savonarola On the renovation of the Church, 1495.--The oratory of divine love, 1497.--Colet's Convocation sermon, 1512.--Egidio da Viterbo's Address to the Fifth Lateran Council, 1512.--The reform bull Supernae dispositionis arbitrio, 1514.--Erasmus' Sileni Alcibiadis, 1515.--Contarini's De officio episcopi, 1516.--Lefe vre's Preface to his Commentaries on the Four Gospels, 1521.--Adrian VI's Instruction to Chieregati, 1522.--The Theatine rule of 1526.--Giberti's Constitutions, after 1527.--The Capuchin Constitutions of 1536.--The Consilium de emendanda ecclesia, 1537.--St. Ignatius Loyola and the founding of the Jesuits.

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Counter-Reformation--Sources.

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