By: Joseph Busuttil, Stanley Fiorini & Horatio Caesar Roger Vella

Format: paperback

No of pages: 471

A Byantine poet and native of sicily in the entourage of King Roger falls out with his king who sends him to exile on the remote Island of Gozo - Melitogaulos - where he writes a long lament in verse.  Very much like him, Ovid had been exiled by his emperor to a far-off island where he pined away giving vent to his frustration in his well-known Triska and Ex Ponto........

This detailed description sheds important new light, especially on Christianity in the Maltese islands, on a period of Maltese hisrtoy about which historians have hitherto drawn a complete blank, namely Arab rule of these islands prior to and post Count Roger's invasion in 1091.