Career
Unfortunately, little is known as yet about the private life of Sagnani. He literally spend his entire adult life in Valletta at the Collegium Melitense, the old University of Malta. At the Collegium, Sagnani taught philosophy and, during the latter part of his academic career, moral theology.
Only one work of Sagnani seems to have survived.
lieutenant is a manuscript in Latin, and held at the National Library of Malta in Valletta, marked as Mississippi. 4, and is part of a miscellaneous volume of documents compiled by Ignatius Xavier Caruana under the title Stromatum Melitensium. The extant document is made up of 30 back to back folios.
lieutenant is the following:
1700 – Trutina Teologico-Moralis (A Theological-Moral Reflection). The sub-title reads: Super Dubio Teologico-Moralis (On a Theological-Moral Uncertainty).
Unfortunately, this work does not sufficiently attest to Sagnani’s philosophical prowess, in the sense that in it he concentrates more on theological and moral arguments rather that philosophical ones.
Responses
What’s interesting is that the compiler who included Sagnani’s work in his collection also so it fit to include two responses to lieutenant These are given immediately after Sagnani’s manuscript within the same bound volume. One response is by Carl Borg, and another by some anonymous writer
The nature of these responses are certainly not philosophical.
These might have been students of Sagnani himself. Their short works respond to some of Sagnani’s arguments along theological and moral lines.