MHS Lecture: ‘CHARITAS, CHARITAS’ – The Confraternity of Charity in seventeenth-century Valletta

The Malta Historical Society invites you to attend the public lecture

‘𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐒, 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐒’ – 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡-𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐚

by Dr Anna Borg Cardona

Join us on 19 January 2023 at 19:00hrs

at the Collegiate Parish Church of St Paul’s Shipwreck

The event is kindly sponsored by The Alfred Mizzi Foundation

𝐒𝐲𝐧𝐨𝐩𝐬𝐢𝐬

By the seventeenth century Valletta had became a centre of trade and commerce and also a hub of architectural and artistic activity. On the outskirts of this prosperity was another reality – the poor, the sick, the blind, the lame and the destitute. In order to provide for this section of society, the Confraternity of Our Lady of Charity was set up in 1610, attached to the Church of St Paul Shipwrecked. The Confraternity was at the same time also a culturally important patron commissioning several artists, sculptors, carvers, framers, gilders, silversmiths, and musicians. The presentation will be looking at some of the significant social and cultural aspects associated with the Confraternity during the 17th century

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿

𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗴 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗮 PhD Music (Southampton,) is author of several books, among which Musical Instruments of the Maltese Islands – History Folkways and Traditions (2014), and more recently Musical Culture and the chitarraro Mattheo Morales in seventeenth-century Malta (2022), and Charitas, Charitas – the Confraternity of Charity in Seventeenth-century Valletta. She has also authored articles in Maltese and international journals, and contributed to the New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments.

Guest curator of the FPM exhibition Music in Malta from Prehistory to Vinyl (2019). Founder of the Ġukulari Ensemble (2002) which presents Malta’s music and musical instruments within their social and historical context.