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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/20870| Title: | The building of the Cottonera fortifications : a Maltese protest against taxation |
| Authors: | Galea Scannura, Charles |
| Keywords: | Malta -- History -- Knights of Malta, 1530-1798 Cotoner y de Oleza, Nicolas, 1608-1680 Fortification -- Malta -- History -- 17th century Taxation -- Malta -- History Pallavicino, Ranuccio, 1632-1712 Cottonera Lines (Malta) Privileges and immunities, Ecclesiastical -- Malta -- History -- 17th century Fortification -- Malta -- Cottonera |
| Issue Date: | 1982 |
| Publisher: | Upper Secondary School Valletta |
| Citation: | Galea Scannura, C. (1982). The building of the Cottonera fortifications : a Maltese protest against taxation. Hyphen, 3(5), 185-196 |
| Abstract: | On 28 March 1673 Mgr. Pallavicino informed the Cardinal Inquisitors that he had withdrawn the patents of some officials of the Holy Office. This decision was connected with the collection of tax which Grand Master Cotoner desired so much to impose in order to finance the construction of the new Cottonera fortifications around the harbour. The resulting crisis that erupted as a result provides insight into the method taxes were levied in Malta and the part played by Rome in determining and influencing local affairs. At the same time bringing to the fore one other perennial problem that characterized local history till the end of the eighteenth century, namely, the question of ecclesiastical immunity. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/20870 |
| Appears in Collections: | Hyphen, Volume 3, No. 5 (1982) Hyphen, Volume 3, No. 5 (1982) |
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