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Mikiel Anton Vassalli
Maltese writer and philosopher
Mikiel Anton Vassalli (5 March 1764 – 12 January 1829) was a Maltesewriter, a philosopher, and a linguist who published important Maltese language books, including a Maltese-Italian dictionary, a Maltese grammar book, the first Protestant Gospels in Maltese, and towards the end of his life, a book on Maltese proverbs.[1]
Life
Mikiel Anton Vassalli was born in Żebbuġ in 1764 to a peasant family, and lost his father at the age of two.
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In 1785, at the age of 21, he started studies of oriental languages in the Sapienza University of Rome. Vassalli had three children, though he was not married.[2]
Maltese Language
Maltese grammars and dictionaries had already been written before the century, but all of them have long since been lost.
It is for this reason that the honour of being the author of the first grammar goes to Canon Giovanni Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis for his Della lingua púnica