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Church-State Relations in Late-Eighteenth-Century Malta
0Original price was: €35.00.€30.00Current price is: €30.00.This visionary, passionate in his hatreds, who with his savage comments and rigid character rarely blended prudence with courage, and whose mind was so sorely swept by the winds of controversy, would be proved right in embracing the cause of the separation between Church and State and distinguishing canon from civil law. His ideas gained ascendancy after his death; they were destined to survive him and become visions in the sould of future generations. The credit they deserved was long overdue. The Erasmian seeds of his ideas which he expressed during the struggle were sown in the hearts of his compatriots. They fell neither ‘beside the path, so that all the birds came and ate them up’, nor on rocky land and among the briers but ‘where the soil was good, and these yielded a harvest.’ The idea of an omnipotent Church had been challenged, and, once challenged it could never recover the unconscious security of the past. The Church’s stand was without promise.
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Cleardo Naudi: The University’s First Professor of Chemistry and Materia Medica, A Delphian and Enigmatic Academic
0€60.00*FINALIST IN THE HISTORIOGRAPHIC RESEARCH CATEGORY: NATIONAL BOOK PRIZE 2025*
Cleardo Naudi, who hailed from a well-connected Maltese family, began his tertiary education at the University of Malta and completed his medical studies at the University of Naples. Naudi went on to further his postgraduate education in London.
During the first decades of British rule in Malta, he managed to contact a number of English missionary societies, and did his best to persuade them to establish footholds on the island.
When in London, he met and forged important connections and conversances with some of the leading chemists of the day, which at times blossomed into useful friendships. Particularly close was his relationship with the Quaker, William Allen. In the meantime, he occupied the first Chair of Chemistry and Materia Medica at Malta’s University…
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Cleardo Naudi: The University’s First Professor of Chemistry and Materia Medica, A Delphian and Enigmatic Academic
0€40.00*FINALIST IN THE HISTORIOGRAPHIC RESEARCH CATEGORY: NATIONAL BOOK PRIZE 2025*
Cleardo Naudi, who hailed from a well-connected Maltese family, began his tertiary education at the University of Malta and completed his medical studies at the University of Naples. Naudi went on to further his postgraduate education in London.
During the first decades of British rule in Malta, he managed to contact a number of English missionary societies, and did his best to persuade them to establish footholds on the island.
When in London, he met and forged important connections and conversances with some of the leading chemists of the day, which at times blossomed into useful friendships. Particularly close was his relationship with the Quaker, William Allen. In the meantime, he occupied the first Chair of Chemistry and Materia Medica at Malta’s University…
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Roberto Ranieri Costaguti
0€40.00Roberto Ranieri Costaguti lived through one of Italy’s most turbulent periods, experiencing political, religious and social movements. Mgr. Costaguti was one of the most gifted homilists of his time. His reputation among his contemporaries, as a talented and erudite preacher, whose delivery was often direct and eloquent, attracted many invitations to preach at various places in Italy and abroad. Costaguti had also been repeatedly requested to preach in Malta. He must have impressed Grandmaster Pinto because the latter had no hesitation in appointing him Rector of his newly founded University. His stay in Malta as Rector was a brief but fruitful one. He thus played a pivotal role in shaping Malta’s educational institutions. Soon after his return to Italy, following the termination of his appointment as Rector, Roberto Costaguti was consecrated Bishop of Sansepolcro. This Tuscan bishop later witnessed the Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802) which saw the invasion and occupation of the Italian States, including the Papal ones, by Napoleon. He learnt of the arrest of Pope Pius VI, who died in exile in France in 1799. During the French interregnum he, at times, stood his ground and even refused to accept the Legion d’Honneur offered to him by the French Emperor.
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