Journal of Maltese Studies 29 - Giovan Francesco Buonamico (1639-1680)

This monographic issue of the Journal of Maltese Studies is dedicated to Giovanni Francesco Buonamico, the Maltese seventeenth-century intellectual mainly remembered as the author of the second oldest poem in Maltese, Mejju ġie bil-ward u ż-żahar. Buonamico was however a man with a remarkably broad range of interests, an inquisitive and energetic polymath, ready to take up any cultural, botanical, or literary initiative that came his way. This publication both commemorates and honours that disposition.