Descrizione

If Bellarmine, as he assures us in his preface, wrote his magnificent Controversies chiefly for the instruction of the students in that establishment, they who actually preside over it must surely feel it their duty to contribute their small abilities, to nourish in its members a spirit of applica tion, and a taste for solid learning. For this purpose, it indeed enjoyed, when restored under the auspices of Pius VII.