[10]Hans Prutz, “Die Anfänge der Hospitaler auf Rhodes,” Sitzungsbericht der Königlichen Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Jg. 1908, Abh. 1.
[11]Giacomo C. Bascapé, L’ordine Sovrano di Malta e gli Ordini Equestri della Chiesa nella storia e nel diritto (Milan, 1941).
[12]Michel de Pierredon, Histoire politique de l’Ordre Souverain des Hospitaliers de Saint-Jean de Jéruzalem, dit de Malta, depuis la chute de Malte jusqu’à nos jours (Poitiers: Imprimérie du Poiton, 1926).
[13]E. Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano, “Lineamenti dell’organizzazione regionale e della funzione assistenziale dell’Ordine,” in: Studi in onore di C. Calisse (Milan, 1939).
[14]For an excellent survey in five languages of the division, degrees, emblems and uniforms of the order see Rudolf Prokopowski, Ordre Souverain et Militaire Jéroselymitain de Malte (Vatican City: Éditions “Ecclesia,” 1950).
[15]See for membership of the order: The Official General Roll of the Grand Magistery (Milan: Ciarrocca, 1949).
[16]A. Visconti, “La sovranità dell’Ordine di Malta nel diritto italiano,” Rivista di diritto privato, VI (1936), 195-205.
[17]AAS, XXXV (1953), 765-67.
[18]Codex juris canonici, can. 4 and 5; can. 25-30; can. 63-79.
[19]One of the most extensive collections in the United States dealing with the Knights of Malta is to be found in the Library of The Catholic University of America. The collection was assembled by Mr. Foster Stearns who in 1955 entrusted it to The Catholic University. The Library has prepared a catalog classifying the 281 titles which include imprints from 1480 to the present day.