books.google.co.uk - Universities were driving forces of change in late Renaissance Italy. The Gonzaga, the ruling family of Mantua, had long supported scholarship and dreamed of founding an institution of higher learning within the city. In the early seventeenth century they joined forces with the Jesuits, a powerful intellectual...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_University_of_Mantua_the_Gonzaga_and.html?id=i0VwjnKewnUC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe University of Mantua, the Gonzaga, and the Jesuits, 1584–1630
