https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/40401 2026-04-04T04:36:18Z 2026-04-04T04:36:18Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/39810 2024-04-10T14:48:08Z 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The Jew of Malta and the myth of the Machiavellian Knave Abstract: Several critics have commented on the prevailing influence of Machiavelli on the Elizabethan World. In 1927, for instance, Wyndham Lewis, affirmed that: 'Machiavelli was at the back of every Tudor mind,'l whilst H.S. Bennett maintained that, '... Machiavelli is so omnipresent and important a constituent of Elizabethan drama.' Very few scholars seek to minimize the influence of Machiavelli on the Elizabethan mind. E.M.W. Tillyard in 1948, however, argued that: ' ... his (Marlowe's) basic doctrines lie outside the main sixteenth century interests.' But this is not the only conflict. A subject of a prolonged controversy has been the introduction of the Machiavellian Legend into England.

1970-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/39805 2019-02-13T02:23:41Z 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Choice; Massive; Fable [poems] Abstract: A selection of poems written by Bernard Mallia: 'Choice', 'Massive', and 'Fable'.

1970-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/39804 2020-05-07T15:07:07Z 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The house of Aragon and Malta : 1282-1412 Abstract: Malta and Gozo, two small and barren islands lying between Sicily and Africa at the very centre of the Mediterranean, were for many centuries dependent on Sicily, if only because their rocky soil and limited water supply meant that the population had to import foodstuffs. The Norman, Hohenstaufen and Angevin rulers of Sicily all considered that it would have been dangerous to, allow Malta to be controlled by a hostile power. The Maltese were influenced in many ways by their successive conquerors, but the isolation and smallness of the islands helped them to preserve their own characteristics; their Christian heritage survived centuries of Muslim occupation just as their African language subsequently endured through centuries of European rule. In 1282 Malta and Gozo were governed by the Angevin Kings of Sicily, and they enjoyed a small measure of prosperity as a commercial outpost of Genoese and other traders. Following the conquest of Sicily by King Pere of Aragon, the Maltese recognized the new regime. When Charles of Anjou, King of Naples, attempted to use Malta as a base for the recovery of Sicily, the Aragonese Adr.liral Ruggiero Lauria inflicted a decisive defeat on the Angevin fleet in a great battle fought in the harbour at Malta on 8 July 1283.

1970-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/39803 2024-04-24T08:56:24Z 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Pietro Aretino Abstract: Non dobbiamo meravigliarci ne scandalizzarci se la letteratura che comincia con San Francesco, se la Ietteratura che ci ha dato Dante e iI Manzoni, abbia pure prodotto, durante i suoi sette se coli di gIoriosa esistenza, alcune figure di scrittori bizzarri e strampalati. Una di queste figure e, senza dubbio, quella di Pietro Aretino, che visse in pieno Rinascimento, in queI periodo d' ora della Letteratura Italiana in cui fiorirono tanti geni universali, come Michelangelo Buonarroti, tanti pittori illustri, come il Tiziano e il Correggio, tanti sommi poeci, come l' Ariosto e il Tasso.

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