/library/oar/handle/123456789/5734 2025-12-22T01:01:23Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/6885 Title: Remembering Gorg Mifsud Chircop (28-6-1951 - 18-12-2007) Editors: Zammit Ciantar, Joe Abstract: Gorg Mifsud Chircop was an author and folklorist and a member of the editorial board of Symposia Melitensia. Born in Qormi, Mifsud Chircop studied at St Aloysius College and the University of Malta where he graduated BA (Hons). MA, and Ph.D .. and obtained the PGCE. He taught in government schools (1972-95), and in 1995 was appointed lecturer and later on senior lecturer with the Department of Maltese at the University of Malta Junior College, and with the Departments of Maltese Studies and of Anthropology, in the University of Malta. 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/6344 Title: Three published books of sermons delivered in Malta between 1694 and 1754 Authors: Zammit, William Abstract: The identification of texts of sermons delivered in Malta during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries would make possible a study of the oratorical styles, themes treated, and languages used in their delivery. This, in turn, would enable a better understanding of the impact that such an important albeit ignored means of verbal communication had on its contemporary audience. In the present short study three unrecorded published books containing sermons are described and briefly discussed. 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/6343 Title: The map of Johannes Quintinus Haeduus and its derivatives Authors: Ganado, Albert Abstract: The first known map of the Maltese islands was drawn in the latter part of the fifteenth century, but the first printed map was that published in 1536 in Lyons by Johannes Quintinus. Being rather primitive, it did not serve as a model for other maps beyond the 16th century. However, as it was important in the time frame of Maltese cartography, it was reproduced by other cartographers, namely, in Frankfurt in 1600, in 1725 in Leiden, and around 1800 as a loose sheet probably in Malta. Of the 16th-century Malta maps, those by Antonio Lafreri (1551) and Matteo Perez d'Aleccio (1582) remained the basic maps for the next two centuries. 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/6342 Title: Pubblikazzjoni mhux maghrufa tal-Kanonku Fortunato Panzavecchia Authors: Agius Muscat, David Abstract: This study sheds light on a recently discovered publication in Maltese and Italian by Canon Fortunato Panzavecchia (1797-1850). Even though the publication does not give the author's details, we are sure that it belongs to Panzavecchia. This publication is one of others which Panzavecchia published for Maltese children attending primary schools, and it gives information on Panzavecchia 's alphabet. 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z