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Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European island country consisting of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea . ___MASK17___ lies south of Italy , east of Tunisia , and north of Libya . The country covers just over , with a population of just under 450 , 000 , making ___MASK17___ one of the world ' ___MASK95___ smallest and most densely populated countries . The capital of Malta is Valletta , which at 0 . 8 km , is the smallest national capital in the European Union . Malta has two official languages : Maltese and ___MASK45___ . Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni ( 6 March 1475  18 February 1564 ) was an ___MASK74___ sculptor , painter , architect , and poet of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art . Considered to be the greatest living artist during his lifetime , he has since been described as one of the greatest artists of all time . Despite making few forays beyond the arts , his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man , along with his rival and fellow Florentine Medici client , Leonardo da Vinci . In classical mythology , Cupid ( Latin Cupido , meaning " desire ") is the god of desire , erotic love , attraction and affection . He is often portrayed as the son of the love goddess Venus and the war god Mars , and is known in Latin also as " Amor " (" Love "). His Greek counterpart is Eros . Classical mythology or Greco - Roman mythology is both ___MASK36___ of and the study of myths from the ancient Greeks and Romans as they are used or transformed by cultural reception . Along with philosophy and political thought , mythology represents one of the major survivals of classical antiquity throughout later Western culture . The Greek word " mythos " refers to the spoken word or speech , but ___MASK17___ also denotes a tale , story or narrative . Sleeping Cupid is a painting by the ___MASK74___ master Caravaggio . Unlike many of Caravaggio ' ___MASK95___ works , it can be dated accurately . It was commissioned for Fra Francesco dell ' Antella , Florentine Secretary for Italy to Alof de Wignacourt , Grand Master of the Knights of Malta , and an old inscription on the back records that it was painted in Malta in 1608 . The subject of a sleeping Cupid , bowstring broken and arrows cast aside , usually signifies the abandonment of worldly pleasures , and dell ' Antella may have commissioned it as a reminder of his vow of chastity . In ___MASK86___ , Eros ( or , " Desire ") was the Greek god of love . His Roman counterpart was Cupid (" desire "). Some myths make him a primordial god , while in other myths , he is the son of Aphrodite . He was one of the winged love gods , Erotes . Naples ( Neapolitan : " Napule " or ; meaning " new city ") is the ___MASK33___ of the Italian region Campania and the third - largest municipality in Italy , after Rome and Milan . In 2015 , around 975 , 260 people lived within the city ' ___MASK95___ administrative limits . The Metropolitan City of Naples had a population of 3 , 115 , 320 . Naples is the 9th - most populous urban area in the European Union with a population of between 3 million and 3 . 7 million . About 4 . 4 million people live in the Naples metropolitan area , one of the largest metropolises on the Mediterranean Sea . Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . ___MASK17___ constitutes an autonomous Region of Italy , along with surrounding minor islands , officially referred to as " Regione Siciliana " ( in Italian , Sicilian Region ). Rome is a city and special " comune " ( named " Roma Capitale ") in Italy . Rome is the ___MASK33___ of Italy and of the Lazio region . With 2 , 870 , 336 residents in , ___MASK17___ is also the country ' ___MASK95___ largest and most populated " comune " and fourth - most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits . The Metropolitan City of Rome has a population of 4 . 3 million residents . The city is located in the central - western portion of the Italian Peninsula , within Lazio ( Latium ), along the shores of Tiber river . The Vatican City is an independent country geographically located within the city boundaries of Rome , the only existing example of a country within a city : for this reason Rome has been often defined as ___MASK33___ of two states . Michelangelo Merisi ( Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi ) da Caravaggio ( 29 September 1571  18 July 1610 ) was an ___MASK74___ painter active in Rome , Naples , Malta , and Sicily between 1592 ( 1595 ?) and 1610 . His paintings , which combine a realistic observation of the human state , both physical and emotional , with a dramatic use of lighting , had a formative influence on Baroque painting .