University of Malta (Valletta Campus)
Former Jesuit college of 1592 around a courtyard, still a university campus with a Greek-inscribed gate.
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This guide to the Old University Building in Valletta, the University of Malta's city campus, follows the Jesuits who taught and lived here from fifteen ninety-two, and the spring of seventeen sixty-eight when Rome agreed to let them be expelled. You'll meet Grand Master Manuel Pinto da Fonseca and the pressure from abroad that landed on his desk. Best heard at the foot of the wide stone staircase off the courtyard.
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