Both were displayed at an exhibition on Caruana Dingli at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Valletta, Malta, in 2010.

[2] Caruana was probably born at his father's Valletta house at 266, St Paul's Street, in 1866.

He was the son of an influential man, Prof. Antonio Annetto Caruana, who was an archeologist, librarian, Director of Education, and Rector of the University of Malta.

The title is augmented with the qualification sulla Scienza e le Discipline Economico-sociali e della loro presente direzione (on Science and the Economic-Social Disciplines, and their present direction).The publication reproduces a talk which Caruana delivered at the opening of the academic year 1889/90 of the University of Malta and the Lyceum.

He explains how there liberalism was arresting the development of science, the economy, and the social studies.

One of Giovanna's brothers, James Galizia, was Director of Public Works and then Treasury Secretary in Malta's early 20th century imperial administration.