The ransom of the peasants : a dramatic poem in five acts : act 1

Abstract

Anthony Cremona, our authority on Maltese Grammar, the author of ll-Fidwa tal-Bdiewa (The Ransom of the Peasants), who has distinguished himself in several linguistic fields, was born in Gozo on May 27, 1880. His earliest interests were literary, mainly Italian literature. It was not before he was thirty two years of age that, after the encouragement he received from the leading novelist and poet of the time, Guze Muscat Azzopardi (1853-1927), he began to take literary and philological interest also in the Maltese Language, with the assistance of the Maltese grammarian Ganni Vassallo (1862-1937), himself an authority on Maltese orthography.