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He preferred Sufi mysticism to orthodox Islam, and held debates with Brahmins, Jain monks, Parsi Zoroastrians, and Jesuits.
The handsome 17th-century palace of the Jesuits is now the Pinacoteca di Brera, one of the country’s foremost art museums of medieval and Renaissance art, concentrating on the master artists of northern Italy.
Pombal dominated Portugal as an enlightened despot, banishing the Jesuits and executing certain members of the nobility who may have been involved in an assassination attempt on the king.
They live similar lives, conduct similar courses, and with similar subventions go to similar conferences and give similar papers on every continent (much as David Lodge describes them in Small World ). They are not as tightly knit as other fraternities, past and present (Knights Templar, Freemasons, Jesuits, Mafia, Ancient and Mystical Order of the Rosy Cross, corporate executives of Coca-Cola or Chrysler, or managers of labor unions).
In alliance with the Jesuits, he weeded out corrupt clerics and what he considered too soft Umiliati order of Catholic laymen.