Carapecchia's water reports

I refer to the feature entitled Watering Down The Threat Of Climate Change (February 5). I would like to draw the attention of readers that the Carapecchia 1707 and 1723 water reports mentioned had been the object of a primary source programme of study that I had made on Romano Carapecchia in 1974-1975, the results of which were subsequently incorporated in a feature on Carapecchia that I had published in The Sunday Times and in my book entitled Carapecchia - Master Of Baroque Architecture In Early Eighteenth Century Malta (Malta, 1999).

In this latter work which was published on behalf of the International Institute for Baroque Studies at the University of Malta, I had on pages 262-282 reproduced the entire contents and illustrations of Carapecchia's second water report which, as I wrote in my introduction to it, expose to the full the architect's technical abilities on hydraulics at a time when water was becoming an increasingly important functional but also decorative element in the building scenario of late Baroque Europe, this obviously reflecting Carapecchia's study of the subject at the Roman Accademia di San Luca under the direction of the great Carlo Fontana.

I would have appreciated it had the author of the above-mentioned feature acknowledged my research work and publications on Carapecchia which were made at a time when the extent of Romano Carapecchia's remarkable contribution to the architectural history of the Maltese islands was relatively unknown.