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The introduction is a bit confused and confusing. To limit myself to page xiv:
1) Dominic Soto was a Dominican and not a Jesuit (xiv).
2) The controversies between Dominicans and Jesuits were not primarily between Dominican Italians and Jesuit Spaniards (xiv).
3) For instance, John of St. Thomas (xiv) is John Poinsot (xxi) and definitely Iberian, although he studied in Belgium, and
4) he belonged to the 17th and not the 16th century (xiv), as
5). did the Carmelites of Salamanca and others, who developed the Thomist tradition only partly in reference to the controversy over grace (xiv).
6) This controversy over grace, as well as many issues in moral psychology, etc., was developed by other Thomists in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, such as Gonet and Billuart, who criticized Jansenism and developed and clarified the Thomistic understanding of the moral act (xiv).
7) Although Gonet did write a compendium, most of these theologians did not 1) primarily write manuals or 2) worry exclusively or even seemingly all that much about defending Catholicism from Protestantism (xiv).
There are very many other infelicities.