Malta connections in Siena

On May 5 you published an excellent article by Albert Storace on Malta connections in Siena Cathedral. Mr Storace promised to draw readers' attention to any future connections with Malta he might discover. It might be of interest to readers to learn...

On May 5 you published an excellent article by Albert Storace on Malta connections in Siena Cathedral. Mr Storace promised to draw readers' attention to any future connections with Malta he might discover.

It might be of interest to readers to learn that there is another reference to Malta in the Chigi Albani Palace in Siena which I visited many years ago. I managed, on that occasion, to take a picture of a bust of Grand Master Pietro del Monte.

The Latin inscription underneath the roundel which contains the bust reads as follows:

Fr Petrus de Monte
Sacri Ordinis Hierosolymitani
Magnus Magister
Christophorae de Saracenis Nepos

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