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  2. Great Siege of Malta - Wikipedia

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    The Great Siege: Malta 1565. Wordsworth edition 1999. ISBN 1-84022-206-9. Bradford, Ernle, The Sultan's Admiral: The Life of Barbarossa, London, 1968. Correggio, Francesco Balbi di (1961). The Siege Of Malta 1565. Copenhagen. Francesco Balbi di Correggio (translated Ernle Bradford in 1965) (1568). "chapter II". The Siege Of Malta 1565. Penguin ...

  3. The Great Siege of Malta in literature and historical fiction

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    Modern authors have attempted to capture the desperation and ferocity of the siege, with varying degrees of success. The Great Siege, Malta 1565, Ernle Bradford (1961) Dorothy Dunnett in The Disorderly Knights (1966), the third volume of The Lymond Chronicles, gives a detailed fiction account of the events of 1551 in Malta, Gozo and Tripoli ...

  4. The Siege of Malta (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The Siege of Malta is a historical novel by Walter Scott written from 1831 to 1832 and first published posthumously in 2008. It tells the story of events surrounding the Great Siege of Malta by the Ottoman Turks in 1565.

  5. Ernle Bradford - Wikipedia

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    The Great Siege: Malta 1565 (Hodder & Stoughton, 1961); US title: The Great Siege (Harcourt Brace, 1961). The Touchstone (Cassell, 1962). Ulysses Found (Hodder & Stoughton, 1963). The Companion Guide to the Greek Isles (Collins, 1963), reprinted many times. Three Centuries of Sailing (Country Life, 1964). The America's Cup (Country Life, 1964 ...

  6. Francisco Balbi di Correggio - Wikipedia

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    First edition of Balbi's account of the Siege of Malta, printed in Alcalá de Henares in 1567. Francisco Balbi di Correggio (16 March 1505 – 12 December 1589), born in Correggio in the province of Reggio Emilia, Italy, was an arquebusier who served with the Spanish contingent during the Great Siege of Malta. Little is known about him other ...

  7. History of Malta - Wikipedia

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    Malta thus reverted to the Crown Colony status it held in 1813. Before the arrival of the British, the official language since 1530 (and the one of the handful of educated elite) had been Italian, but this was downgraded by the increased use of English. In 1934 Maltese was declared an official language, which brought the number up to three.

  8. Fort Saint Michael - Wikipedia

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    Fort Saint Michael (Maltese: Forti San Mikiel) was a small fort in the land front of the city of Senglea, Malta. It was originally built in the 1552 and played a significant role in the Great Siege of Malta of 1565. Following the siege, it was rebuilt as Saint Michael Cavalier (Maltese: Kavallier ta' San Mikiel), and was completed in 1581. The ...

  9. Saint Jerome Writing (Caravaggio, Valletta) - Wikipedia

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    Ippolito Malaspina arrived in Malta at the end of the Great Siege of 1565. He landed with the 'Grande Soccorso' and was present in the final onslaught on the invading Ottoman forces. Therefore, this knight indeed witnessed the final stages of the Great Siege.