The political ideas of M.A. Vassalli (original) (raw)

The present text has been expanded from the 1986 and 1993 printed versions. Mikiel Anton Vassalli is a vastly respected eighteenth century intellectual who laid the scientific foundations for the study of the Maltese language. But he also emerges as the foremost initiator of Malta's national political aspirations. His gallant efforts in the late 18th century political convulsed world were squashed by the superpowers of the time and Vassalli's political beliefs submerged and for long held in suspension.