More Histories III – Made In the Image

More Histories III – Made In the Image

an anthology of stories on prominent personalities in Malta.

Archaeologists, poets and artists, intellectuals, reformers, visionaries, judges, and stewards of history and beauty, all of whom were either Maltese or had some strong connection to the Maltese Islands, are the protagonists of the stories recounted in the third volume of More Histories. As elusive as their personalities might be, what becomes progressively clear, as we sift through the lives recounted between the covers of this volume, is that any kind of judgement we may pass on an individual’s life, work, decisions, and actions is always far more nuanced than the reductive dichotomies of good or bad, right or wrong … Those stumbles and pitfalls, the frequent short-sightedness and occasional long sightedness, the equal tragic cost of opportunism and of righteousness, the solitude of less popular and even less travelled roads, make such recounted lives all the more accessible, all the more real, and all the more revealing of something far more archaic and far-reaching. It is, perhaps, as one scholar of comparative religions puts it, that ‘thinking well of one’s origins … is part of having a healthy self image’.

Table of Contents

• Malta’s National Portrait Gallery
• Antonio Bosio: Charting an Enigma
• Fra’ Ciro di Pers: Poet and Knight of Malta
• Fra’ Gabriele: Forgotten Son of Girolamo Cassar
• Gio Nicolò Muscat: A Mild Debunking
• Mikiel Anton Vassalli: On the Foundation of a School and the Derivations of Words
• Robert Ganado: A Judge for All Seasons
• Sir Arturo Mercieca: A Colossus of the Law
• Antonio Sciortino: The Man behind the King
• Vincenzo Bonello: Revelations of a Sister Island
• Frederick W. Ryan: Great Historian, Greater Visionary
• Maurice Caruana Curran: A Meteor of Searing Brightness
• Dun Ġwann Azzopardi: Witnesses of a Man

By: Giovanni Bonello

Format: paperback

No of pages: 240