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62 relations: Alessandro Manzoni, Alfred Sant, Antoine Cassar, Anton Buttigieg, Aristocracy, Ġużè Galea, Bastille Day, Bible, Bourgeoisie, British Empire, Burlesque, Caravel, Catechism, Clare Azzopardi, Clergy, Conspiracy of the Slaves, Diglossia, Dun Karm Psaila, English language, Epic poetry, Francis Ebejer, Frans Said, Frans Sammut, French language, French occupation of Malta, Gioacchino Navarro, Gospel of John, Greek language, Herbert Ganado, Il-Kantilena, Immanuel Mifsud, Italian irredentism in Malta, Italian language, Knights Hospitaller, Latin, Lino Spiteri, Lord's Prayer, Malta, Maltese Carnival, Maltese language, Maltese people, Mary Meilak, Mikiel Anton Vassalli, Naples, Nicolas Cotoner, Ninu Cremona, Novel, Oliver Friggieri, Paceville, Pietru Caxaro, ..., Punics, Ray Buttigieg, Roger I of Sicily, Romance languages, Romanticism, Rużar Briffa, Sicilian language, Siculo-Arabic, Spanish language, Taħt Tliet Saltniet, The Betrothed (Manzoni novel), University of Malta. Expand index (12 more) »
Alessandro Manzoni
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni (7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873) was an Italian poet and novelist.
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Alfred Sant
Alfred Sant (born 28 February 1948) is a Maltese politician and a novelist.
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Antoine Cassar
Antoine Cassar (born 1978) is a Maltese poet and translator.
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Anton Buttigieg
Anton Buttigieg KUOM (Anton Buttiġieġ; 19 February 1912 – 5 May 1983) was a Maltese political figure and poet.
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Aristocracy
Aristocracy (Greek ἀριστοκρατία aristokratía, from ἄριστος aristos "excellent", and κράτος kratos "power") is a form of government that places strength in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class.
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Ġużè Galea
Ġużè Galea (18 July 1901 – 26 March 1978) was a doctor and a Maltese author.
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Bastille Day
Bastille Day is the common name given in English-speaking countries/lands to the French National Day, which is celebrated on the 14th of July each year.
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Bible
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans.
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Bourgeoisie
The bourgeoisie is a polysemous French term that can mean.
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
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Burlesque
A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects.
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Caravel
A caravel (Portuguese: caravela) is a small, highly maneuverable sailing ship developed in the 15th century by the Portuguese to explore along the West African coast and into the Atlantic Ocean.
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Catechism
A catechism (from κατηχέω, "to teach orally") is a summary or exposition of doctrine and serves as a learning introduction to the Sacraments traditionally used in catechesis, or Christian religious teaching of children and adult converts.
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Clare Azzopardi
Clare Azzopardi (5 July 1977) is a Maltese author who writes for both adults and younger readers.
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Clergy
Clergy are some of the main and important formal leaders within certain religions.
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Conspiracy of the Slaves
The Conspiracy of the Slaves (Konfoffa tal-ilsiera), also known as the Revolt of the Slaves, was a failed plot by Muslim slaves in Hospitaller-ruled Malta to rebel, assassinate Grand Master Manuel Pinto da Fonseca and take over the island.
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Diglossia
In linguistics, diglossia is a situation in which two dialects or languages are used by a single language community.
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Dun Karm Psaila
(Don) Carmelo Psaila, better known as Dun Karm (Żebbuġ, 18 October 1871 – 13 October 1961) was a Maltese priest, writer and poet, sometimes called 'the bard of Malta'.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Epic poetry
An epic poem, epic, epos, or epopee is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily involving a time beyond living memory in which occurred the extraordinary doings of the extraordinary men and women who, in dealings with the gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the moral universe that their descendants, the poet and his audience, must understand to understand themselves as a people or nation.
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Francis Ebejer
Francis Ebejer (28 August 1925, Dingli — 10 June 1993, St Julian's) was a Maltese dramatist and novelist.
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Frans Said
Frans Henry Said (born 16 September 1932) is a Maltese broadcaster and author.
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Frans Sammut
Frans Sammut (19 November 1945 – 4 May 2011) was a Maltese novelist and non-fiction writer.
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French language
French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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French occupation of Malta
The French occupation of Malta lasted from 1798 to 1800.
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Gioacchino Navarro
Gioacchino Navarro (1748–1813) was the Conventional Parish Priest of the Order of St.
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Gospel of John
The Gospel According to John is the fourth of the canonical gospels.
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Greek language
Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
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Herbert Ganado
Herbert Ganado (7 April 1906 – 8 April 1979) was a Maltese lawyer, president of Catholic Action, editor, politician and author.
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Il-Kantilena
Il-Kantilena is the oldest known literary text in the Maltese language.
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Immanuel Mifsud
Immanuel Mifsud (born September 12, 1967) is a writer of poetry and prose, born in Paola, Malta.
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Italian irredentism in Malta
Italian irredentism in Malta is related to the Maltese people who supported Italian irredentism in Malta and believe the Maltese islands are part of Italy.
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Italian language
Italian (or lingua italiana) is a Romance language.
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Knights Hospitaller
The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (Ordo Fratrum Hospitalis Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani), also known as the Order of Saint John, Order of Hospitallers, Knights Hospitaller, Knights Hospitalier or Hospitallers, was a medieval Catholic military order.
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Latin
Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Lino Spiteri
Lino Spiteri (23 September 1938 – 14 November 2014) was a Maltese writer and politician.
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Lord's Prayer
The Lord's Prayer (also called the Our Father, Pater Noster, or the Model Prayer) is a venerated Christian prayer which, according to the New Testament, Jesus taught as the way to pray: Two versions of this prayer are recorded in the gospels: a longer form within the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew, and a shorter form in the Gospel of Luke when "one of his disciples said to him, 'Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.'" Lutheran theologian Harold Buls suggested that both were original, the Matthaen version spoken by Jesus early in his ministry in Galilee, and the Lucan version one year later, "very likely in Judea".
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Malta
Malta, officially known as the Republic of Malta (Repubblika ta' Malta), is a Southern European island country consisting of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Maltese Carnival
Carnival (Maltese: il-Karnival ta' Malta) has had an important place on the Maltese cultural calendar for just under five centuries, having been introduced to the Islands by Grand Master Piero de Ponte in 1535.
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Maltese language
Maltese (Malti) is the national language of Malta and a co-official language of the country alongside English, while also serving as an official language of the European Union, the only Semitic language so distinguished.
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Maltese people
The Maltese (Maltin) are an ethnic group indigenous to Malta, and identified with the Maltese language.
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Mary Meilak
Mary Meilak (9 August 1905 – 1 January 1975) was a Maltese poet.
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Mikiel Anton Vassalli
Mikiel Anton Vassalli (March 5, 1764 in Żebbuġ, Malta – January 12, 1829) was a Maltese writer, 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.
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Naples
Naples (Napoli, Napule or; Neapolis; lit) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest municipality in Italy after Rome and Milan.
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Nicolas Cotoner
Fra' Nicolas Cotoner (Nicolau Cotoner i d'Olesa; 1608, Mallorca – 29 April 1680, Malta) was the 61st Prince and Grand Master of the Order of Malta, between 1663 and 1680.
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Ninu Cremona
Ninu "Anthony" Cremona (May 27, 1880 - January 4, 1972), colloquially known as Is-Sur Nin, was a Maltese writer and health inspector.
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Novel
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally in prose, which is typically published as a book.
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Oliver Friggieri
Oliver Friggieri (born 27 March 1947) is a Maltese poet, novelist, literary critic, and minor philosopher.
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Paceville
Located west of St. Julian's, Malta, Paceville (Paċeville, sometimes abbreviated PV) is the name given to an informal district heavily populated with nightclubs, bars, stripclubs, pubs and restaurants, and is an important nightlife hub on the island.
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Pietru Caxaro
Pietru "Peter" Caxaro (c. 14001485) was a Maltese philosopher and poet.
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Punics
The Punics (from Latin punicus, pl. punici), also known as Carthaginians, were a people from Ancient Carthage (now in Tunisia, North Africa) who traced their origins to the Phoenicians.
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Ray Buttigieg
Ray Buttigieg (born May 1, 1955 in Gozo, Malta) is a poet and musician.
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Roger I of Sicily
Roger I (– 22 June 1101), nicknamed Roger Bosso and The Great Count, was a Norman nobleman who became the first Count of Sicily from 1071 to 1101.
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Romance languages
The Romance languages (also called Romanic languages or Neo-Latin languages) are the modern languages that began evolving from Vulgar Latin between the sixth and ninth centuries and that form a branch of the Italic languages within the Indo-European language family.
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Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.
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Rużar Briffa
Rużar Briffa (1906 – 1963) was a Maltese poet and dermatologist, and a major figure in Maltese literature.
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Sicilian language
Sicilian (sicilianu; in Italian: Siciliano; also known as Siculo (siculu) or Calabro-Sicilian) is a Romance language spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands.
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Siculo-Arabic
Siculo-Arabic (or Sicilian Arabic) is the term used for the variety (or varieties) of Arabic that were spoken in the Emirate of Sicily (that included Malta) from the 9th century, persisting under the subsequent Norman rule till the 13th century.
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Spanish language
Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.
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Taħt Tliet Saltniet
Taħt Tliet Saltniet (Under Three Kingdoms) is a novel in Maltese by Ġużè Aquilina, published for the first time in 1938, then published again in 1945, 1969, 1978, 1997 and in 2003.
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The Betrothed (Manzoni novel)
The Betrothed (I promessi sposi) is an Italian historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni, first published in 1827, in three volumes.
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University of Malta
The University of Malta is the highest educational institution in Malta.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_literature
