https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/38482 2026-04-10T20:01:11Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/130403 Title: The Journal of Baroque Studies : volume 2 : number 3 Authors: Ciappara, Frans Abstract: Table of contents:; - Theatre spaces in Baroque Malta: Paul Xuereb; - Discovering the original main altar at St John's Conventual Church: the first step towards the Baroque Grand Interior: Cynthia de Giorgio; - La Figure du chevalier de Malte dans Manon Lescaut, fiction ou realite?: Carmen Depasquale; - Guerra, economia, e rivoluzione militare: Francesco Frasca; - 'Ebreo fatto cristiano' : identite religieuse des juifs convertis a Malte (XVle-XVIII siecles): Sarah Azzopardi-Ljubibratic; - Breve notizia della tipograflca professione nell'isola di Malta: Federica Fonniga; - The Significance of the Via Cruels and its Artistic Development in Malta: Giorgina Pavia; - Cardinal Giovanni Battista de Luca and his Reflections on the Right of Resistance to the Prince. An Unresolved Debate: Gian Luca O'Enico; - Baroque collective memory as a component of Maltese national identity: Charles Xuereb; - 'Per se,vitio di questi populi ... ' The development of Valletta's market place: a study of the evolution of the socio-spatial dialectic between the XVlth and the XIXth centuries: Christian Mifsud; - The Maltese perit in reconstructing the Early Modern Landscape: Mevrick Spiteri & Daniel Borg; - Delle Case, e Fondi: Grandmaster Vilhena's code on property, construction and the Officio delle Case in eighteenth-century Malta: Mevrick Spiteri; - Books Received 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/130398 Title: Theatre spaces in Baroque Malta Authors: Xuereb, Paul Abstract: In the 16th century when the Order of St John became rulers of Malta the only known forms of theatre-making in this country were the qarcilla and the qarinza, both of them simple and somewhat primitive dramatic actions performed in the open air, in the streets of towns and villages. So far as is known there were no indoor places for theatre-making. By the early 17th century, when the effects of the Great Siege had weakened, however, the Order had truly settled in. When the pleasure-loving Antoine de Paule was Grandmaster, the Italian knights, coming from states in which theatre-making was strongly established, and the new genre of opera had fired the enthusiasm of the middle and upper classes and led to the building of new theatre buildings, decided they should do something about theatre themselves. This they did by inviting over to Malta companies of actors and singers to perform in the large hall of their Auberge, the building now housing MUZA, in what is now Triq il-Merkanti, and to stage their own productions on a stage they built in or before 1631, the year in which one of the new operas was performed probably by visiting professional singers. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/130397 Title: Discovering the original main altar at St John's Conventual Church : the first step towards the Baroque grand interior Authors: de Giorgio, Cynthia Abstract: When St John's conventual church was completed in the year 1577, the appearance of the interior was significantly different to what one sees today. In contrast with the exuberant embellishment it was simple and plain. The only possible accessories would have been a simple stone main altar with the mannerist style altarpiece depicting The Baptism of Christ by Perez d' Aleccio. During recent conservation works, where the marble tiles were lifted, emerged the original stone steps that once led to the main altar at the back of the church. The significance of this discovery is the subject of this paper. Considering that most of the marble and gilded carvings took place in the seventeenth century it is evident that the presbytery had a very different arrangement. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/130386 Title: La figure du chevalier de Malte dans Manon Lescaut, fiction ou realite? Authors: Depasquale, Carmen Abstract: Le chevalier de Malte fut, au XVIIIe siecle, le heros de plusieurs romans ou reuvres de fiction dont le plus celebre est le chevalier des Grieux, heros de Manon Lescaut, rendu encore plus populaire par Jules Massenet et par Giacomo Puccini. A divers titres, des Grieux n'est pas le modele du chevalier de Malte tel qu'on le decouvre dans les documents d'archives. II est vrai que certaines anecdotes du temps rapportees par Jes journaux et par les rec its des voyageurs ont contribue a donner cette image ou les chevaliers frarn;ais tenaient la premiere place. Cependant, si leurs mreurs reelles etaient loin de l'ideal monastique, Jes aventures romanesques du heros de l'abbe Prevost depassent de loin Jes fautes assez communes concemant amour, jeu, tricherie, dettes qui ne manquaient pas de ternir l'image du chevalier de l'Ordre de Malte. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z