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
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