Floriana & il-Furjaniżi, a tri-centenary commemoration. Editors: Joan Abela, Giulia Privitelli

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Contents

Davina Sammut

Foreword

Joan Abela and Giulia Privitelli
Preface

Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna
Appreciation

Freddie Tonna and Stephen Tonna
The Life and History of the Gazette IL-FURJANA 

William Zammit
Birth Pangs of a Town: The Evolution of the ‘Borgo Floriana’
under the Hospitallers

Stephen C. Spiteri
The Floriana Lines: A Defence in Depth

Joseph Schirò
Two Unknown Plans of Floriana

Conrad Thake
A Historical Appraisal of the Architecture and Urban Form of Floriana

Giannantonio Scaglione
Floriana’s Houses: The Building Space and Urban Military Strategies
in the Eighteenth Century

Albert Ganado
The True Origin of the Sa Maison House and Garden

Joseph Buhagiar
Floriana’s Garden Jewels: The Argotti and St Philip Gardens

Petra Caruana Dingli
The Garden of Rest (Ġnien il-Mistrieħ):
A Nineteenth-Century Protestant Cemetery on the Floriana Bastions

Nicholas Doublet
Casa Manresa: Its History and Artistic Collection

Martin Micallef
Paladini’s Paintings at the Old Floriana Capuchin Church and Friary

David Torpiano
Confraternities Canonically Erected in the Parish Church of St Publius

Charles Savona-Ventura
Social Service Facilities in Borgo Vilhena

Steven Mallia
Water Storage in Floriana: The Largest Water Storage in Malta
during the Order of St John and the Early British Period

Noel Buttigieg
Aspects of Floriana’s Eighteenth-Century Foodscape

Mario Xuereb
The Furjaniżi and their Identity: Beyond Geneology Lies Mythology

Henry Frendo
Floriana Childhood Memories

Noel D’Anastas
‘Come on! Come in! Come inside!’ The Good Old Days of Balzunetta

Nigel Holland and Jake Muscat
The Vilhena Philharmonic Society: 150 Years of History

Carmel Baldacchino
The Birth of Floriana FC (1894)

Mario H. Calleja
Scouting in Floriana

Andre P. Debattista
Borgo Vilhena as a Witness to Contemporary History:
Principal Events in Floriana, 1910–2020

Paul P. Agius
The ‘Archivio Compagnoni Floriani’ in Macerata:

A Personal Experience Focusing on Pietro Paolo Floriani

Martin Camilleri
30 Years of Local Government in Floriana: A Fact Sheet