Virtu della pietra di S. Paolo

Abstract

The present most interesting publication has been prepared by the learned Professor Charles Savona-Ventura who served as the hospitaller, historian, and newsletter editor of the Grand Priory of the Maltese Islands within the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem. Prof. Savona-Ventura is primarily a consultant obstetrician-gynaecologist, but has specialised further in medical history and has written several publications in this field, including the book The Hospitaller knights of Saint Lazarus published in 2006 by the Grand Priory of the Maltese Islands. The author is also a member of the academic body of the University of Malta, not only in his primary medical speciality serving as head of the academic department, but also lectures in medical history in the postgraduate programme of the Institute of Maltese Studies.