Frans Sammut and the Maltese Flag around 1970
Frans Sammut holding Vassalli's collection of Maltese proverbs. December 2006.
Samuraj, page 1 (original manuscript, Sammut Family Archives)
Pietru Caxaro
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Pietru Caxaro or Caxaru, also known in English as Peter Caxaro, was a Maltese notary, orator, politician, philosopher, and poet. He wrote the poem Cantilena, the earliest known text in the Maltese lan
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…works published by Mondial Books of New York. In 2008, his Il-Gagga was published for the fifth time. In 2009, Sammut presented a reinterpretation of Pietru Caxaro's poem "Xidew il-qada" (also known as "Il Cantilena"), the oldest written document in the Maltese language. Sammut translated important works for…
Pietru Caxaro's Cantilena, the earliest known Maltese language writing
Caxaro's tomb memorial at St. Dominic's Church, Rabat, Malta
An aerial view of Mdina and its fortifications, captured in 2014; Mark Montebello suggests that the fallen house in the Cantilena may be a symbol of the partial collapse of Mdina's walls in 1454
Petrarch, an Italian poet and leading proponent of humanism; Montebello discerns a humanistic outlook in the Cantilena