https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/130326 2026-06-07T17:20:37Z 2026-06-07T17:20:37Z Wettinger, Godfrey https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/130443 2025-01-09T08:53:11Z 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Kliem Malti qadim Authors: Wettinger, Godfrey Abstract: Wara s-sejba tal-Kantilena, l-awtur kien għamel madwar 40 sena jqalleb id-dokumenti nutarili u minnhom jislet it-toponimi li wara sabu posthom fil-magnum opus tiegħu. Matul dil-ħidma kbira, ġie wiċċ imb wiċċ ma’ madwar 100 kelma Maltija u ġabarhom. Kull kelma jirriproduċiha u jqegħedha fil-kuntest tad-dokument miktub ġeneralment bl-Isqalli jew il-Latin, u jerġa’ jfisser kollox bil-Malti. Il-kliem li kien marbut ma’ element materjali li m’għadux magħruf biżżejjed fostna, meta kien possibbli illustrah b’ritratt, ngħidu aħna l-ġifna maġenb il-bir.

2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Agius Muscat, David Vella, Olvin https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/130442 2025-12-17T11:39:51Z 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Minn fomm Vassalli : tagħrif ġdid fil-manuskritti tal-Kanonku Fortunato Panzavecchia Authors: Agius Muscat, David; Vella, Olvin Abstract: Meta David Agius Muscat kien qed iqalleb il-manuskritti ta’ Panzavecchia fl-Arkivju tal-Katidral, l-Imdina, sab xi noti fuq l-arrest ta’ Vassalli, il-qagħda tiegħu l-ħabs, u deskrizzjoni ta’ kif Vassalli u sħabu sabu ruħhom Korsika. Skont Panzavecchia, dawn in-noti ġabarhom minn fomm Vassalli. Sejba oħra mhux mistennija kienet l-avviż tal-bidu tal-lezzjonijiet tal-Malti fl-Università: fih insibu deskrizzjoni qasira ta’ nisel il-Malti, il-jiem tal-lezzjonijiet u l-ħin, u tagħrif fuq l-għalliem.

2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Ciappara, Frans https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/130438 2025-01-09T08:36:49Z 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Mikiel Anton Vassalli (1764-1829) : an enlightened Maltese reformer Authors: Ciappara, Frans Abstract: Adversity assailed him continually but somehow he always succeeded to regain the fire of his youth, the best warmth of his genius and the greatest strength of his enterprising passion. We are in the presence of a giant individual, who displayed remarkable courage and daring, a brilliant mind and a great heart… Perversity diminished none of his defiant vitality and the fearlessness of his thought. He realised that his adversaries could take everything from him except his mind and heart. But he still had control over those things and he decided not to give them away. Only the lower classes were proud of their language and sang folk songs. But to claim for them any literary merit was to count merciless ridicule. Nevertheless, he continued to defend his mission just as a faithful soldier holds the post which has been committed to his keeping. He was the sole witness of the struggle within him and he could have ignored his conscience to go on. That was impossible because of all witnesses that was the one before whom this deeply human man most feared to blush.

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