The at the University of Malta, has just published a new issue of the Journal of Baroque studies.
The contents of this edition include contributions on: Serve per abbellire – Francesco Buonamici’s two Baroque Jesuit Churches in Valletta and Trapani authored by of the University of Malta; Padre Pelagio’s 1748 Letter from Amalfi by of the University of Malta; Necessity and Choice in the context of Vanitas in the Baroque culture by Dr Vaiva Kubeckiene of Vilnius University; Mattia Preti’s ‘Boetius and Philosophy’: Early Modern Philosophical Meditations by Robert Farrugia who is a doctoral candidate at the University of Malta; Aspetti Agiografici e sviluppo culturale di Rocco da Montpellier nel mezzogiorno d’Italia e in Basilicata by Professor Nicola Montesano of the SSML University Institute of Basilicata; Searching for Epiphanius’ Collyridians: On a long and winding road from Thrace to Arabia authored by Prof. Milan Vukomanovic of the University of Belgrade and Dr. Bojana Radovanovic of the Institut fuer Mittelalterforschung in Vienna; Ecclesia triumphans – When Baron de Champs played Grand Master Lascaris: Malta and the conversion of a prince from Morocco in seventeenth-century Jesuit Drama by Dr Thomas Freller, who has lectured in the universities of Malta, Swabisch Gmund and Aalen in Germany and Daugavpils in Latvia; La politica marittima di Elisabetta I : L’emergenza della talassocrazia inglese by Prof. Francesco Frasca who taught and conducted seminars at the Universities of Rome ‘la Sapienza,’ Paris I, Paris IV and Malta; The art of Rhetoric and its usage in the Music of the seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries by Fiona Giambra, an MA graduate of the International Institute for Baroque Studies at the University of Malta; and Early British interventions on the Grand Harbour Baroque Hospitaller Fortifications by of the International Institute for Baroque Studies at the University of Malta.
This edition of the Journal of Baroque Studies which also contains reviews of three books received and information about courses at MA [taught], MA [by research], Diploma and Pre-Tertiary levels run by the International Institute for Baroque Studies, is edited by Prof. Frans Ciappara.
