With this second volume the authors present another important part of
the corpus on the architecture of the Society of Jesus in Italy. The
first volume - by Richard Bosel, dealing with the Roman and Neapolitan
Provinces - appeared in 1985 also in the Verlag der Osterreichischen
Akademie der Wissenschaften (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press) and had
a second edition already in 1986. Iti is the aim of the research project
to deal monographically with the architectural heritage of a whole
province of the order during two centuries and to research into its
manifold historical connections. Altogether forty establishments of the
order are presented - colleges, profess houses, residences, novitiates,
academies and especially the churches annexed to all them. As regard the
areas, the volume deals with Lombardy, Piedmont, Liguria and the isle of
Corsica, at the time belonging to Genoa. Analyzing the buildings of the
one religious order that was, maybe, the most important one for the
counter-reformation, will enlarge the general picture of Italian
architectural history by important aspects.