Life
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 University of Rome. During his second exile in France he married Catherine Formosa de Freamaux in 1813. He died in 1829 and, having been refused burial by the Catholic Church. Vassalli was buried in the Msida Bastions Garden of Rest, a Protestant cemetery mainly used by the British.
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