Biography: Melchiorre Cafà
Melchiorre Cafà
The Maltese Genius of the Roman BaroqueThe ninth of ten children to stone-carver Marco and Veronica, Melchiorre Cafà was born in Birgu. He was baptized on 21 January given the name of Marcello, in remembrance of a child born to the family in 1634 and who died as an infant.In his recent studies about Cafà,...