Mikiel Anton Vassalli
…grammar book, the first Protestant Gospels in Maltese, and towards the end of his life, a book on Maltese proverbs. Mikiel Anton Vassalli was born in Żebbuġ in 1764 to a peasant family, and lost his father at the age of two. In 1785, at the age of 21, he started studies of oriental languages in the Sapienza…