We are very pleased to announce that our Davide Basaldella has just published his monograph on the use of Sicilian and Italian in Malta between the 15th and the 16th centuries, based on notarial documents of the Valletta archives (Siciliano e italiano a Malta fra Quattro e Cinquecento. Edizione e commento linguistico di testi volgari dell’Archivio notarile della Valletta, ELiPhi, 2024, ISBN 978-2-37276-074-4). Congratulations! The good news is that it is available in OPEN ACCESS clicking HERE This is an abstract of the book: By virtue of its geographical location and political events, the Maltese archipelago has always been a crossroads and meeting place of peoples, cultures, and languages. First an Arab dominion, then part of the Kingdom of Sicily, and finally the seat of the Order of St. John, over seven centuries Malta underwent profound demographic, social, and economic changes, which were reflected in its linguistic situation. In light of these particular conditions, the documents preserved at the Maltese archives, still largely unexplored, provide valuable material for both the historian of language and the scholar of linguistic contact. This book offers a study of the Italoromance varieties employed in Malta between the 15th and 16th centuries from a corpus of mostly unpublished notarial acts. The systematic analysis of the documents makes it possible to address diverse problems, ranging from the contact between Romance and Semitic, to the evolution of Sicilian in use in Malta, to the dynamics of Tuscanization, which affected the archipelago from the late 15th century onward. Particular attention is also paid to the lexicon, which is rich in Arabicisms, terms proper to material culture, as well as technicalities of law and maritime trade.