OAR@UM Collection: /library/oar/handle/123456789/36545 2025-12-29T05:36:52Z 2025-12-29T05:36:52Z Book reviews /library/oar/handle/123456789/36854 2018-11-29T02:50:46Z 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Book reviews Abstract: This document contains a series of book reviews from the year 1968. 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Attivita' culturali Italiane in Malta /library/oar/handle/123456789/36774 2018-12-21T13:31:42Z 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Attivita' culturali Italiane in Malta Abstract: The Italian influence in Malta was always a substantial, albeit brief one- writes Sir Arturo Mercieca. One of the pillars of this influence was the Italian Cultural Institute which is situated in Valletta. 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Diodorus Melitensis /library/oar/handle/123456789/36772 2020-05-07T15:14:01Z 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Diodorus Melitensis Abstract: Maltese-born expatriate Diodorus Melitensis lived in Marsala, Sicily when he became entangled in a dispute with ex-propraetor Gaius Verres involving the theft of silverware. Busuttil talks about Cicero's passage that describes the transgression. 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Correspondence relative to the painting of the "Madonna of Philermos" /library/oar/handle/123456789/36767 2025-09-17T10:51:37Z 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Correspondence relative to the painting of the "Madonna of Philermos" Abstract: Camilleri gives a historical insight about the painting of Our Lady of Philermos which once stood framed in St. John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta. Upon the advent of the French invasion of Malta and the subsequent expulsion of Grand Master Ferdinando de Hompesch, the painting was taken and presented to Paul I, Emperor of Russia. 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z