 He died at his parents’ home at Naxxar on 16 November 1956, a month short of his sixty-second birthday, and buried in the Dominican church of Our Lady of the Grotto at Rabat, Malta.The commentaries would represent the main output for a Thomistic intellectual with which he really shows his mettle.Apart of Pirotta’s two published volumes that were part of his "Summa Philosophiæ Aristotelico-Thomisticæ", published in 1931 and 1936 respectively, these commentaries―especially the first on the "―were in fact the intellectual productions that effectively brought Pirotta most renown.