The historian Gio. Francesco Abela (1582-1655) was Vice-Chancellor of the Order. In 1647 he published his monumental work Della Descrizione di Malta, of which the National Library also owns a manuscript copy. Abela’s work was the first history of Malta and one of the first books published in Malta. More than a century after Abela’s death, his work was edited and amplified by Count Gio. Antonio Ciantar and republished under the title Malta Illustrata.
573 pp ; xvi pp. ; 30 x 21 cm
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Malta ; History ; Geography ; Gio. Francesco Abela ; Paolo Bonacota, Malta-History, Malta-Geography, Abela, Giovanfrancesco, 1582-1655, Bonacota, Paolo
