https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/140255 2026-04-27T18:56:52Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/140823 Title: Thesis dissertations Abstract: The document presents summaries of three M.A. dissertations in Classics from the University of Malta. The first offers a re-edition, English translation, and commentary on Marsilio Ficino’s De Sole; the second provides a Maltese translation and commentary on Aristotle’s Poetics, marking the first such translation; and the third discusses challenges and reform proposals for the study of Classics, emphasizing language, literature, and culture. 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/140822 Title: Properzju : Eleġiji [Book review] Abstract: Until very recently, those Maltese students and the public in general, who may have lacked a sound knowledge and fluency of the original Classical languages yet whose hearts yearned for the ‘realms of gold’, had to be content with translations in other foreign tongues – a process which to a native population with its own established language still had to be once more mentally transposed. [excerpt] 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/140721 Title: Il-Viżta Pastorali ta’ Mons. Dusina fil-Parroċċa taż-Żurrieq 1575, Horatio Caesar Roger Vella, Żurrieq Local Council, 2013 [Book review] Abstract: Monsignor Pietro Dusina’s 1575 Report remains one of the most valuable documents on several aspects of Maltese late medieval and early modern history. Although the chief interest lies in ecclesiastical matters, the document also abounds in details pertaining to current societal, artistic and topographic features of the Maltese islands. Aquilina and Fiorini’s edition of the Report (University of Malta, 2001) furnished comprehensive introduction and annotations, but not a translation of the Latin text. [excerpt] 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/140720 Title: Documents on Għar Il-Kbir, Malta : 1588 – 1733 : a critical appraisal [Book review] Authors: Vella, George F. Abstract: The new book Documents on Għar il-Kbir, Malta: 1588 – 1733 illustrates eighteen Latin documents, falling into the period spanning from 1588 till 1733, which, after being admirably collected by Joseph Borg, have been diligently transcribed, translated and commented upon by university professor Horatio Vella. These manuscripts are all about marriage contracts involving people from Għar il-Kbir. 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z