TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cambiano,Giuseppe
AU  - Petkov,Kiril
TI  - The Maltese dialogue: Giuseppe Cambiano, history, institutions, and politics of the Maltese Knights 1554/1556 
SN  - 9781032091853
AV  - CR4723 .C3613 2020
U1  - 945.8/502 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Cambiano, Giuseppe,
KW  - Knights of Malta
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Translations into English
KW  - Organization
KW  - Political activity
KW  - Hospitalers
KW  - Italy
KW  - Venice
KW  - Libya
KW  - Tripoli
KW  - Greece
KW  - Rhodes (Island)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "The Maltese Dialogue is the first comprehensive treatise of the history, institutions, and political projects of the Order of the Knights of Saint John of the Hospital, commonly known as the Maltese Order. It was written during the tenure of Grand Master Fra Claude de la Sengle (1553-1557), although the conversation between Commendator Fra Giuseppe Cambiano, one of the Order's most prominent sixteenth-century functionaries, and three Venetian patricians, on which the Dialogue is based, may have taken place even earlier. The contents of the Dialogue fall in three categories: the opening section is the first detailed precis of the Hospitallers' history; then comes the bulk of the treatise, presenting a concise summary of the Order's constitution, institutional and legal organization, election procedures, recruitment of knights, rituals of instalment, and financial matters. The remaining section is a polemical expose arguing for the benefit of the Order's abandoning of Malta and the recapturing of Tripoli"--
ER  -