ON THE OPENING OF A NEW CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLINANTS
ROMANA, Provost.
Nell’aprirsi della nuova chiesa dalla veneranda, antichissima Confraternita de’ Disciplinanti in Dogliani l’anno MDCCLVI. Nel priorato del signor Celso Cillario. Sonetto ... Del Prev. Romana.
Mondovì, Pietro Francesco and Luiggi Rossi, [1756].
Broadside folio (approx. 32 x 43 cm); word ‘sonetto’ within woodcut cartouche, one woodcut initial; light spotting and creases to margins, signs of old horizontal and vertical folds, two small wormtracks touching a handful of letters, nevertheless a remarkable survival.
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Nell’aprirsi della nuova chiesa dalla veneranda, antichissima Confraternita de’ Disciplinanti in Dogliani l’anno MDCCLVI. Nel priorato del signor Celso Cillario. Sonetto ... Del Prev. Romana.
Unrecorded provincially printed broadside celebrating the opening of a new church of the Confraternity of the Disciplinants of Dogliani.
The sonnet, dedicated to Giuseppe Filippo Porporato (1698–1781), Bishop of Saluzzo, explains that it took thirty years to finally execute the project, now only completed thanks to the efforts and economical support of the bishop.
Although no specific reference is made to the town or the name of the church, it very likely refers to the church of the Confraternita di Santa Croce in the town of Villanova Mondovì, in Piedmont. Built in 1755 in late Baroque-style, the church was commissioned by the Confraternity of the Disciplinants of Santa Croce, and constructed by Bernardo Antonio Vittone and Francesco Gallo, who managed to realise the project many years after it was first approved, and in spite of an allegedly limited budget.
The Confraternity of the Disciplinants of Santa Croce, founded in the early sixteenth century, was primarily composed of lay people, who would lead a life of devotion marked by prayer and penitential practices. Originally a purely devotional order which assisted only its own members, following a merger with other congregations at the beginning of the eighteenth century the brotherhood started to extend their aid to the wider community.
