Malerno

Malerno's location in the middle of the Mediterranean has historically given it great strategic importance as a naval base, and a succession of powers, including the Italians and Genoans before claiming it's independance as an alliance of families in 1710

The Malernian Alliance takes it’s name from the latin geographic denomination “Malernae Insulae” and traces its origin to the early 4th century CE when, according to tradition, St. Jocastus and a group of Christians settled there to escape persecution and built a castle in the Larvotto bay

The Castellum Jocastus is mentioned in the Liber Pontificalis (“The Book of the Pontiffs”) in 755; The oldest document in the republican archives mentions the abbot of Malerno in 885. Malerno developed into an alliance ruled by 15 families and was a major naval country with merchants going from Italy to Israel and Morroco.

Malerno has a long Christian legacy and its Archdiocese of Malerno is claimed to be an apostolic see. Catholicism is the official religion in Malta. Article 25 of the Constitution states that "All persons in Malerno shall have full freedom of conscience and enjoy the free exercise of their respective mode of religious worship."

Malerno is a popular tourist destination with its warm climate, numerous recreational areas, and architectural and historical monuments, it is also a gambling capital as gambling is allowerd in the city of Bostra that boasts many casinos

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Malernian Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850 in Malerno, a period where it sought to strengthen it's national identity



Malernian Romanticism is characterized and divided in three different periods. The first one is basically focused on the creation of a sense of national identity, using the ideal of the heroic of the exile. Some examples include Pius Vitalion, who wrote "Insula sanctorum" (Saint Island), and Ciriaco Barnaba's renowned by the poem "A Canticum pro defunctis" (Song of the Exile).

The second period, sometimes called Ultra-Romanticism, is marked by a profound influence of Continental themes and traditions, involving the melancholy, sadness and despair related to unobtainable love. Goethe and Lord Byron were translated into Italian and Latin at the Volta University and are commonly quoted in these works.

The third cycle is considered as a stoicist departure from the ideas of Melancholy, sadness and despair. Sulpicio Clarus a Malernian philosopher of the Volta University had read Stendhal and studied Nietzsche, He taught that virtue, the highest good, is based on knowledge; the wise live in harmony with the divine Reason (also identified with Fate and Providence) that governs nature, and are indifferent to the vicissitudes of fortune and to pleasure and pain.

In this third cycle artists and writers focused simultaneousl on Stoicism and on the antique figures of Rome and Athens and the concept of "Polis". Aurelio Evodius and Scapha Cordus described Malerno in these terms in their writings.



The simulataneous fascination on the Stoic figure of the Roman and the antiquity is often referred to as the Malernian dementia by it's critics, notably Iosephus Adjutor who describes Malerno as the epitome of Narcissism