Istoria della Compagnia di Gesu

Istoria della Compagnia di Gesu is a monumental six folio-volume work about the history of the Society of Jesus published in Rome in 1650–1673 by the Jesuit historian Daniello Bartoli. It is the most extensive classic of Italian literature, over ten thousand pages long. It begins the centenary history of the Jesuits between 1540 and 1640 with an authoritative if somewhat ponderous biography of the founder Ignatius Loyola.