Peter Caxaro was virtually unknown until he was made famous in 1968 by the publication of his "Cantilena" by the Dominican Mikiel Fsadni and Godfrey Wettinger. It was Fsadni who discovered the "Cantilena" on September 22, 1966, at the back of the third page from the last in the first of Reverend Brandan Caxaro's notarial registers (1533–1536), currently numbered R175, in the Notarial Archives, Valletta. Caxaro's work was actually transcribed by Rev. Brandan himself in its original Maltese version. The discovery was encountered with enthusiasm within scholarship circles since it had eventually given Maltese literature its greatest boost for a very long time. It had taken the authors about two years before they were able to present Caxaro's "Cantilena" to the general public.