A Timeless Gentleman

CONTENTS

Foreword - ‘Thieves of Time’
Giovanni Bonello

PART 1 - A MAN LIKE MAURICE

Ambling down Memory Lane
Michael Refalo

3 Citadels for Maurice
Richard England

A Valued Accidental Friendship
Michael Frendo

Kissed by the Muses
Nicholas de Piro

PART 2 - ART, ARCHITECTURE and ARCHAEOLOGY

Poses and Postures - Portraits at The Palace, Valletta
Bernadine Scicluna

A Very Brief History of Art Collecting in Early Modern Malta
Theresa Vella

La Cassière’s Palace Complex - The Sixteenth-century Origins of the Grand Master’s Palace in Valletta
Jevon Vella

Insularity and the Emergence of Complex Social and Religious Systems in Prehistoric Malta - The Artistic Indicators
Anthony Bonanno

Encounters with Mediterranean Island Aesthetics - Malta’s Prehistoric Art and Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti
Anthony Pace

Sigismondo Dimech between Trieste and Malta
Mario Buhagiar

Baroque in Valletta
Denis De Lucca

Drawings of Valletta in the Albertina Museum, Vienna
Roger Vella Bonavita

Caravaggio and Preti - Rare Engravings of their Paintings
Albert Ganado

A Bust Monument by Giuseppe Valenti in St Paul’s Church, Rabat, Malta
John Azzopardi

Some Armorial Silver in Malta
Adrian Strickland

The Discovery of a Rare Matteo Perez d’Aleccio Copperplate of the Great Siege of Malta
Joseph Schirò

The Lost Mace of the Cathedral Chapter
Edgar Vella

The Portrait of a Man with a Dog at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta
Antonio Espinosa Rodriguez

The Allegories of Truth and Time at St John’s Co-Cathedral
Cynthia de Giorgio

‘More than meets the eye...’ - Observations on the Mattia Preti Quadricentennial Exhibitions of 2013
John T. Spike

Nineteenth-century Opera Costume Designs at the Manoel Theatre
Vicki Ann Cremona

Architecture on Demand - Efforts to Preserve Malta’s Architectural Drawings
Charles J. Farrugia and Melissa Glass

Seeking Solace in the Mediterranean - Architect Basil Spence in Malta
Conrad Thake

PART 3 - HISTORY, CUSTOMS AND OTHER MUSINGS

Fel uardiae col sceber raba iesue vquiae: Sale of Plots of Land in Valletta, 1569
Stanley Fiorini

12 ottobre 1516, il documento più antico conservato presso l’Archivio Nazionale di Malta
Joseph Amodio

Examples of pre-1500 Chancery Scripts at the National Library of Malta
Maroma Camilleri

Men and their Jewels in Malta
Francesca Balzan

Treasures of an Uditore - The 1759 Estate Inventory of Giuseppe Fabrizio Grech
John Varriano

The Domestic Interior of a Prosperous Florentine Merchant in Sixteenth-century Birgu
Joan Abela

‘Abbas I, Shah of Persia, greets the Sultan of Malta’ - A Diplomatic Initiative in Early Seventeenth-century Malta
Ann Williams

Setting the Stage - Banquet for a Knight
Noel Buttigieg

Malta and the Celebration of Victory over the Turks in the Siege of Vienna of 1683
Carmel Cassar

Preparing for the Afterlife in Eighteenth-century Malta
Frans Ciappara

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the Order of St John and the Intellectual Avant-garde of the Eighteenth Century
Thomas Freller

Stemming Vice - A Proposal for Hospitaller Virtuous Living in Ancien Régime Malta
William Zammit

Resistance in Malta to the Risorgimento in 1862
Cecilia Xuereb

The Stolen Stones of the Victoria Lines
Stephen C. Spiteri

Malta’s Importation and Sale of Musical Instruments and Musical Goods, 1800-1900
Anna Borg Cardona

Malta before Yalta and after - Geopolitics, Strategy and Ideology
Henry Frendo

On the Trail of The Maltese Falcon
Alan Borg

The Swinging Sixties in Claustrophobic Malta - The Rise of Malta’s Mixed Youth Clubs
Noel D’Anastas

Index