Jesuit students celebrate Purification of the Virgin. Unrecorded broadside.

[Ephemera] / [Jesuit schools] / [Virgin Mary]. Solenneggiandosi dagli scuolari de’ padri della Compagnia di Gesù la Festa della Purificazione di Maria Vergine nella loro congregazione. Sonetto. Modena: Per Antonio Capponi Stampatore Vescovale, 1721. Full sheet [43.3 x 32.4 cm], [1] f. letterpress broadside, with woodcut vignette and initial. Folds, with minor losses at folds, staining, toning, dustiness and edge wear. 
 
 
Unrecorded broadside sonnet printed for display during the celebration of the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin (i.e., Candlemas, on 2 February) held in 1721 for students at a Jesuit school, likely in Modena, where the sheet was printed. Ephemeral material of this sort was produced in great quantities in Italy during the early modern period, but its survival rate is very low.
 
The poem—unrecorded elsewhere—is the work of a member of the Accademia dei Discordi who calls himself “L’Incerto.” His identity remains obscure to me (it was a common academical name) as does the specific “colony” of the Discordi to which he belonged. The sonnet (fittingly) treats the subject of the Virgin’s purity.
 
 
OCLC, KVK, and OPAC/SBN/ICCU do not locate any copies of this broadside.