Nor were they always scrupulous in the means employed for taking hold on young men of distinction.

One instance of the animosity they aroused, even in Italy, at an early period of their activity, will suffice.

Tuscany was thrown into commotion by the discovery of their designs upon the boys they undertook to teach.
[Footnote 172: See Sarpi's _Letters_, vol.i.p.

352, for Protestant pupils of Jesuits.

Sarpi's _Memorial to the Signory of Venice on the Collegio de'Greci in Rome_ exposes the fallacy of their being reputed the best teachers of youth, by pointing out how their aim is to withdraw their pupils' allegiance from the nation, the government, and the family, to themselves.] 'They were so madly bent,' says Galluzzi, 'upon filling the ranks of their Company with individuals of wealth and birth, that in 1584, in the single city of Siena, under the pretense of devotion, they seduced thirty youths of the noblest and richest houses, not without great injury to their families and grief to their parents.