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Baroque orders of corruption -- The spiritual exercises, or the formation of mental territories and orders of corruption -- Totalitarian structures and orders of corruption -- The formation of an image reservoir -- Imitatio Christi and baroque inversions -- Ego vobis romae propitius ero : diffusion of the spiritual exercises in Rome (1550-1650) -- The first mission of new apostle -- an image reservoir in the multiple-layer urban fabric -- Corresponding dynamics -- Roman churches after the spiritual exercises -- The mother church of Il Ges�u and Sant Andrea al Quirinale -- The Roma ignaziana -- Transformation of the visual dynamics of the spiritual exercises in the late works of Miguel de Cervantes -- Cervantes, corruption, the urban and the company -- Don Quixote, an excessive projection in a greater narrative -- Last pilgrimage : Cervantes representation of Rome in Persiles -- Transforming the orders of corruption in El critic�on : the case of Baltasar Graci�an, a Jesuit preparing the way for the Enlightenment -- Pre-Enlightenment coming out of the exercises -- The exercise of decoding monstrosity -- Contemplating eternal arts beyond the Roma ignaziana -- The enigmatic parallel writing of El comulgatorio -- From Loyolan imagination to Sadean Enlightenment : the parodying inversions of the spiritual exercises in the novels of the Marquis de Sade -- Philosophical criticism of Loyolan system in Enlightenment -- Sadean inversions -- Collecting the tableaux in the cent vingt journ�ees -- Melting down the concept of spiritual directors -- Forcing the exercitant in desiring the opposite -- Revisiting the Roma ignaziana in Juliette.

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