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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/53598| Title: | Caterina Scappi revisited |
| Authors: | Bonello, Giovanni |
| Keywords: | Malta -- History -- Knights of Malta, 1530-1798 Hospital care -- Malta -- History Women -- Malta -- History -- 17th century Women -- Malta -- History -- 16th century Women's health services -- Malta Prostitution -- Malta -- History Scappi, Caterina, ?-1643 |
| Issue Date: | 2019-09-29 |
| Publisher: | Allied Newspapers Limited |
| Citation: | Bonello, G. (2019, 29 September). Caterina Scappi revisited, Sunday Times of Malta, pp. 52n. |
| Abstract: | In this article, Giovanni Bonello recounts the story of Caterina Scappi, described as "the first feminist in Malta". Caterina Scappi dedicated the latter part of her life and the best part of her wealth to alleviate the sufferings of ailing, abandoned or destitute prostitutes, seems to have emerged from nowhere. She founded and endowed with her belongings the very first infirmary for women in Malta - 'the hospital for incurable women'. This article relates a criminal court case record from 1583-4 in which a younger Caterina Scappi features in a milieu of "burglars, whores and perjurers", that might be the first archival reference to her. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/53598 |
| Appears in Collections: | Melitensia Works - ERCWHMlt |
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