In my review of Giovanni Bonello's Histories of Malta 5 (The Sunday Times, December 19) I absent-mindedly referred to Caterina Vitale, the subject of one of Bonello's biographical studies, as Caterina Valente, though the right name was carried in the caption to one of the pictures illustrating my article.
Caterina Valente was a contemporary of Vitale, and like her she was a philanthropist, though unlike Vitale she has not been accused so far of earning a fortune through prostitution. Like Vitale too, she is buried in a church; not the Carmelite church but that of St Paul in Valletta.
My apologies to Giovanni Bonello and to the readers of this newspaper.