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the Somaschans also founded a boarding school in padua, a school for
nobles in brescia, another school for nobles with foreign boarders in ber-
gamo, and a third school for nobles including boarders in Verona, in the
17th century.34 further research on Somaschan schools is needed.
but many Venetian and terraferma noble parents still wanted their
sons to receive Jesuit educations. So they sent them to Jesuit boarding
schools outside the Venetian state, despite prohibitions barring contact
with the Society. approximately 350 young Venetian nobles and another
1350 noble boys from the rest of the Venetian state attended the Jesuit
noble boarding schools of bologna and parma between 1600 and 1769.35
the Republic permitted the Jesuits to re-enter the Venetian state in 1657,
at which time the Society substantially expanded its educational mission.
the Jesuits reopened and enlarged their noble boarding school in brescia.
Venetian noble boys made up 35 per cent to 40 per cent of the enrollment
there before 1606 and after 1657; the rest came from the Veneto and else-
where.36 after 1657 the Jesuits offered both upper-level and lower-level
schooling at Verona, they created new upper and lower schools at Venice
and padua, and they added new lower schools at belluno and Vicenza.
numerous Venetian and terraferma noble boys continued to attend Jesuit
noble boarding schools outside the Venetian state.37 for example, three
future doges—pietro Grimani (b. 1677; doge 1741–52), Marco foscarini
34 for the Somaschan schools in Venice and pauda, see Sangalli, Cultura, politica
e religione, pp. 363–446; and antonella barzazi, Gli affanni dell’erudizione. Studi e
organizzazione culturale degli ordini religiosi a Venezia tra Sei e Settecento (Venice, 2004),
pp. 73–196. for the Somaschan school at bergamo, see carlsmith, A Renaissance Education,
pp. 193–222. for the Somaschan school at Verona, see angelo orlandi, “Scuole ecclesiastiche
dall’umanesimo all’ottocento,” in Gian paolo Marchi, ed., Cultura e vita civile a Verona.
Uomini e istituzioni dall’epoca carolingia al Risorgimento (Verona, 1979), pp. 294–95; and
Marchi, “istituzioni scolastiche,” pp. 54–55. for the piarist schools, see Maurizio Sangalli,
Le smanie per l’educazione. Gli scolopi a Venezia tra Sei e Settecento (Rome, 2012).
35 Gian paolo brizzi, La formazione della classe dirigente nei Sei-Settecento. I seminaria
nobilium nell’Italia centrosettentrionale (bologna, 1976), pp. 38, 40; and brizzi, “Scuole
e collegi nell’antica provincia Veneta della compagnia di Gesù,” in Gesuiti e Venezia.
Momenti e problemi di storia veneziana della Compagnia di Gesù, atti del convegno di
Studi, Venezia, 2–5 ottobre 1990, ed. Mario Zanardi (padua, 1994), pp. 502–05, 511.
36 Marco agosti, “la tradizione pedagogica fino al Settecento,” in Giovanni treccani
degli alfieri, ed., Storia di Brescia, 5 vols (brescia, 1963–64), vol. 3 (1964): La dominazione
veneta (1576–1797), p. 322.
37 Zanardi, “i ‘domicilia,’ ” pp. 95–96; brizzi, “Scuole,” pp. 507–11. for the Jesuit school
at Verona, see orlandi, “Scuole ecclesiastiche,” pp. 293–94; and Marchi, “istituzioni
scolastiche,” pp. 54–55.