[Anti-Jesuit sonnet]. "Per la soppressione della Compagnia di Gesù". Manuscript copy of a sonnet.

No place, 16. VIII. 1773.

8vo. Italian manuscript on paper. ½ p.

 800.00

Unpublished sonnet attributed to a Count Marescalchi of Ferrara. The poem describes the Society of Jesus as a crumbling "bulwark of two centuries", likening it to the Tower of Babel and lamenting their vanity. It concludes with the assertion that the Jesuits are guilty of their own ruin: "Te stessa incolpa della tua ruina".

The sonnet is dated to 16 August 1773, less than a month after the suppression of the Jesuits by Pope Clement XIV through the papal brief "Dominus ac Redemptor Noster". This controversial political act led to a surge in propaganda for and against the Jesuits and the Pope.

The word "Emine[n]za" written on the verso, potentially indicating a dedication. Minor brownstaining.

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