A FREE COPY OF THE CATALOGUE OF THE VICTOR PASMORE GALLERY IN VALLETTA
IS BEING GIVEN WITH THE SUMMER 2016 ISSUE OF TREASURES OF MALTA

ARTICLES

Malta and the Princely Saxonian Expedition to Africa: An in-depth look at the island's artistic and archaeological treasures in 1732
Thomas Freller presents the impressions of a group of reputable scholars who visited Malta, then famed for its Terra Melitensis

Victor Pasmore (1908-1998): Personal Recollections
Richard England

Out at Sea with Captain Michele Cardona
Liam Gauci continues to fascinate us with his second account of another corsair captain operating at the end of the eighteenth century

My Favourite Object
Edgar Vella

The Valletta Drawbridge
Josef Aquilina outlines the history and analyzes the structure of the drawbridge that once graced Valletta's main entrance

Recycled Seas of Parchment: A newly discovered portolan chart at the Notarial Archives, Valletta
Joan Abela and Theresa Zammit Lupi

Palazzo Messina and its History
Denise Micallef

From the Albert Ganado Collection

An Elusive Camocio Map
Joseph Schiro' discusses an exemplar of this Siege map from the collection of Charles University in Prague

Malta: The war trophies of the First World War
Charles Debono discusses the war-trophy highlights belonging to the National Collection

Re-examining the Carasi pseudonym
Robert Thake

Melitensia Curios
William Zammit

The Cover
Giulia Privitelli

Bookshelf

Letter to the Editor

Cultural Calendar
Cecilia Xuereb