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Cosmana Navarra
Cosmana Navarra ( 1600 – 30 January 1687) was a Maltese noblewoman and art patron. Cosmana Navarra was born around the year 1600, the daughter of Giovanni Cumbo and Cornelia Navarra. Her mother came from a noble family, so this may be the reason her daughter was often referred to by this surname. After her mother's death, her father married Giovanna D’Anastasio. Their daughter Timotea became Suor Geltruda Cumbo (1613-1656), popularly regarded as a saint.Caruana Dingli, PetraBetween Malta and Palermo: Re-Creating the Life Story of Geltruda Cumbo (1613–56) In ''Fuga Mundi: Studies on Monasticism in Late Antiquity and Early Modern Malta'' ed. by Jonathan Farrugia (University of Malta, 2024), pp. 59–87. In 1615, Cosmana Navarra married Melchior Vella Cagliares, a lawyer and nephew of Bishop Baldassare Cagliares. They had one child, Jesuit author Ignazio Vella Cagliares (1618-1640), before he died in 1624. The next year she married Lorenzo Cassar, who died in 1660. She sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casa Cosmana Navarra
Casa Cosmana Navarra () is a 17th-century aristocratic townhouse in Rabat, Malta. The building belonged to Cosmana Navarra (1600-1687), for whom it is named until date, who was the main benefactress of the rebuilding of the Collegiate church of St Paul, Rabat, Rabat parish church of St. Paul. The house is found in front of the parish church opposite the Wignacourt Museum. Most of the building was converted into a restaurant. Location ''Casa Cosmana Navarra'' is found at 28 St. Paul’s Street in Rabat, Malta, next to Rabat's parish church and close to The Wignacourt Museum. History Casa Cosmana Navarra was one of the few residential houses built in the 17th century in Rabat, the suburb of Mdina, as building outside fortified cities was not encouraged. Cosmana Navarra (born Guzmana Cumbo; when married, Cassar; known by her mother's surname as Navarra) was the daughter of Gakbu Cumbo and Cornelia Cumbo (née Navarra), of the Palazzo Falson, Cumbo-Navarra family. On 22 June 1625, at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maltese People
The Maltese () people are an ethnic group native to Malta who speak Maltese, a Semitic language with a substantial Romance superstratum, and share a common Maltese history and culture characterised by Roman Catholicism, which remains the state religion. Malta, an island country in the Mediterranean Sea, is an archipelago that also includes an island of the same name together with the islands of Gozo () and Comino (); people of Gozo, ''Gozitans'' () are considered a subgroup of the Maltese. History The current Maltese people, characterised by the use of the Maltese language and by Roman Catholicism, are the descendants – through much mixing and hybridisation – of colonists from Sicily and Calabria who repopulated the Maltese islands in the beginning of the second millennium after a two-century lapse of depopulation that followed the Ifriqiyian conquest by the Aghlabids in AD 870. A genetic study by Capelli et al. indicates that Malta was barely in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
