/library/oar/handle/123456789/28118 2025-11-13T03:36:20Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/28725 Title: L' archivio musicale della Cattedrale di Mdina a Malta : il repertorio Siciliano Abstract: The musical chapel of the Cathedral of Malta, located in the old city of Mdina had close relations with Sicily in the seventeenth century. In fact, the historical documents reveal that from Sicily came the masters of the chapel, the voices and the music. But in the eighteenth century the Maltese chapel reached a certain autonomy, employing more local musicians, who, however, having formed in Naples from where they returned skilled masters and composers in the Neapolitan tradition, showed a strong Neapolitan inspiration. The situation was somewhat different in the organ sector because the chapter of the cathedral from the sixteenth century turned to Naples to buy the organs and used Sicilians, often residents in Malta, for their restoration. However, the parish churches and convents, as well as the conventual church of the Order of St. John, always turned to Sicily for both purchase and restoration. 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/28724 Title: Punti d'incontro nell' architettura a Malta e in Sicilia Abstract: Architecture has been defined as "the most genuine expression of the historical events that produced it". The author shall begin with a brief historical introduction of the two islands (Sicily and Malta), then continue on by talking about the similarities in architecture. In all the quotations drawn from classical literature, the name of Malta and that of Sicily are connected, and any reference to one of the islands finds an immediate echo in the history of the other. 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/28723 Title: La leggenda Maltese della sposa della Mosta : due varianti inedite e la "Scibilia Nobili" siciliana Abstract: In 1932 Ettore Rossi considered the Maltese legend of the Bride of Mosta (L-Gharusa tal-Mosta) to detect the great resemblance that it found between the Maltese tale and the Scibilia Nobili of Marsala, recognizing in this resemblance a tangible sign of the historical and folkloristic ties that unite Malta to Sicily. The main reason, common to the two stories, which justified this to his conclusion was the abduction of a bride by the corsairs, "who in vain turns to parents and relatives for the ransom and only saved for the sacrifice of the groom." 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/28722 Title: L'influenza Siciliana sull'arte a Malta Abstract: The relationships between the Sicilian art and the artistic activity in the Maltese islands are one subject of great interest but also one of extreme complexity. The object of this research can not be separated from the historical background and, as we shall see, the intensity of artistic exchanges between Sicily and Malta and the result of political events that have affected the relations of the two geographically close islands. Therefore, a brief outline of the various political relations between Malta and Sicily will not be out of place, as it serves to frame the stages of the artistic Sicilian influence in Malta. Although the links between the two islands are possible, in fact tracing until prehistoric times, as shown by the parallels between the reliefs of Tarxien and Castelluccio, this brief evaluation only begins from the eleventh century when the Normans incorporated the Maltese islands in their entirety in the recently reigned Kingdom of Sicily. Until 1530, Malta remains a complete prerogative - though remote - of the Crown of Sicily. The municipality of Malta operated at the same level as the other Sicilian municipalities and could be detached or re-integrated into the real domain just like other municipalities in Sicily, such as the town of Butera. The destiny of the artistic tradition of the Maltese Islands proved to be equal to the political one. In fact, the art of Malta from the eleventh century until 1530 is only a pure and simple extension of Sicilian art. 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z