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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/112515| Title: | The architectural legacy of Grand Master Pinto |
| Authors: | Thake, Conrad |
| Keywords: | Pinto da Fonseca, Manoel, 1681-1773 Knights of Malta. Grand Masters Order of St John. Grand Masters Architecture -- Malta -- History -- 18th century Architecture, Baroque -- Malta -- History -- 18th century Malta -- History -- Knights of Malta, 1530-1798 Order of St John Auberge de Castille et Leon (Valletta, Malta) Grandmaster’s Palace (Valletta, Malta) Pinto Stores (Floriana, Malta) Castellania Palace (Valletta, Malta) Chapel of the Flight into Egypt (Floriana, Malta) Brydone, P. (Patrick), 1743-1818 -- Travel -- Malta Brydone, P. (Patrick), 1736-1818. Tour through Sicily and Malta Testa, Carmelo, 1929-2006. The Life and Times of Grand Master Pinto, 1741-1773 |
| Issue Date: | 1996 |
| Publisher: | Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti |
| Citation: | Thake, C. (1996). The architectural legacy of Grand Master Pinto. Treasures of Malta, 2(2), 39-43. |
| Abstract: | Patrick Brydone in his travel account, A Tour through Sicily and Malta, published in London in 1773, provides us with a vivid account of his personal encounter with the Portuguese Grand Master Emanuel Pinto de Fonseca during the last years of his reign. "He has now been at the head of this singular little state for upwards of thirty years. He received us with great politeness, and was highly pleased to find that some of us had been to Portugal ... He is a clear-headed, sensible little old man; which, at so advanced a period of life, is very uncommon. Although he is considerably upwards of ninety, he retains all the faculties of his mind in perfection. He has no minister, but manages everything himself; and has immediate information of the most minute occurrences ... His household attendance and court are all very princely; and as grand master of Malta, he is more absolute, and possesses more power than most sovereign princes." [Excerpt] |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/112515 |
| ISSN: | 10283013 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtHa |
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