Histories of Malta
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Vol.
7
Closures and Disclosures
Giovanni Bonello
This volume is thirty-first publication and a very worthy successor to its predecessors. Once again this latest series of Histories contains a wide range of subjects to suit every taste, from some rare examples of women knights of Malta to a mysterious Mary Magdalen in St John's, from a story of murder in a Maltese monastery to POW's in Malta during WW1.
Like its predecessors in the series, this volume has the double merit of being based very largely on original research and of being very richly illustrated. Two of the chapters add important new information about the history of theatre-making in Malta before 1732 and also of drawing, music-making and the use of fireworks displays in Maltese festivities during the rule of the Order in Malta. Bonello’s brief history of window-glass in Malta makes a significant contribution to the history of building construction in Malta during the same period.
CONTENTS
La Monaca di Malta – Murder in a Hospitaller Monastery
A Brief History of Window-Glass in Malta
Governors of Malta in the 16th Century
Some Rare Examples of Women Knights in Malta
Theatre in Malta before the ‘Manoel’
Dancing, Fireworks, Allegrezze, Music
Minor Gozo in the Early Records
Sir George Courthop – The Second English Writer about Malta
A Mysterious Mary Magdalen in St John’s
Usurping the Maltese-Eight-Pointed Cross in Novara - A 1651 Incident
The First Guild of Artists in Malta, 1671
POWs in Malta during World War One
Artists who painted Maltese Postcards 1898-1945
George Borg Olivier, 25 years on
Crucifixus, The Supremacy of Infamy
Provenance
Index
