Mario Zammit-Lewis, also known as Il Maltese in Piedmont in the '70s and '80s.
Born in Msida (Malta) 75 years ago, of a Maltese father and an Italian mother, he moved to Piedmont in '63 from Paris, working as a pencil portraitist.
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