The Renaissance of Carlo Magri (1617-1693) : unveiling Malta's intellectual dramatist

Abstract

In the seventeenth century, the Maltese islands underwent a fervent artistic and literary blossoming, favoured by a period of stability, security, and tranquillity, both in the political and economic fields-a cultural history very similar to that of southern Italy, where the course of political events intertwined with the history of ideas and cultural environments. Similar to what happened in the Regno delle due Sicilie (Kingdom of Two Sicilies), culture in Malta, especially towards the end of the seventeenth century, flourished.