{"id":591,"date":"2024-11-12T23:08:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T23:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pullicinofamily.com\/?p=591"},"modified":"2024-11-14T07:48:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T07:48:36","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pullicinofamily.com\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"Books to note"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The following four books were written by Sir Philip’s children. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No Strangers in the Silent City<\/em> by Anne Agius Ferrante (1925 \u20132023). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This book is a short collection of anecdotes about village life in Mdina, Rabat and surrounds when Anne was a child. Not so much about the family itself, but there are occasional tidbits.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A Lawyer At Large <\/em>by John Pullicino (1912-1994). Published in 1989 during his retirement.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Road to Rome<\/em> by Philo Pullicino (1915-1995). Published in 2012. Includes his World War 2 diaries.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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James Martin: Opening Africa<\/em> by Philo Pullicino and Mark J Pullicino. Written in 1994 a year before Philo’s death and edited\/published by his son in 2008. This book was presented to the Maltese Prime Minister by Philo’s widow Laura, then 93 years old.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

There are also other books of interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mons. Dr. Paolo Pullicino, 1815-1890<\/em> by Michael Galea, published 1991. An important biography of this great man that was carefully researched. It is worth noting that Mons Paolo himself was an author of several pamphlets.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Some mentions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • The Bonham-Carter Diaries (1936-1940)<\/em> by John Manduca. Mentions Sir Philip Pullicino a few times, who was then Maltese Attorney-General.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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    The following four books were written by Sir Philip’s children. No Strangers in the Silent City by Anne Agius Ferrante (1925 \u20132023). This book is a short collection of anecdotes about village life in Mdina, Rabat and surrounds when Anne was a child. Not so much about the family itself, but there are occasional tidbits. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pullicinofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pullicinofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pullicinofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pullicinofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pullicinofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pullicinofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pullicinofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pullicinofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pullicinofamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}