Malta Jana Potockiego
Jan Potocki’s Malta

Summary/Abstract: In Count Jan Potocki’s biography we find a period of his longer stay on Malta. Unfortunately, he left us neither a description of the island at that time, nor one of the Order of Malta to which he was finally admitted. Potocki’s knowledge on Malta and the reality he experienced are confirmed only by the members of the Order featuring in “Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie (The Manuscript Found in Saragossa)” and their remarks about the life in the Order. However, accounts of travellers (e.g. of the Briton Patrick Brydone) from Potocki’s times mike it possible to reconstruct the then island and the Order of Malta. The essay is an attempt at presenting Malta, its inhabitants and the Knights at the time Potocki stayed there.

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