Raffaello! Raffaello!
Subtitle: Raffaello Carboni at Eureka, before and beyond it
By: Desmond O'Grady
Edition: New edition.
Publisher: Arcadia
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Kew, VIC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781925588620
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Italian Authors; Biography; Eureka Stockade, Ballarat, Vic., 1854; History
Description: âRaffaello Carboni shaped our view of the Eureka Stockade but, before this biography, little was known about the man. Of the 13 tried for high treason after the uprising, he was the only one who had faced a similar change in his home country where he had already lived through an experience similar to that of the Stockade. For Carboni the most significant moment of Eureka was not the Stockade onslaught but the minersâ pledge of solidarity, which showed that those who had come to get gold and get out had become opponents of injustice. On his return to Italy, Carboni rejoined the Garibaldian battle for national unity but also surprisingly suggested a ballet of nude aboriginal females a La Scala Opera house in Milan. He remained unpredictable and colourful but this should not obscure the fact that, because of his political background, he made a crucial contribution to a key episode in Australian history. This new version of a compelling biography shows Carboni as a talented, complex, bumptious but, ultimately, disappointed man who gave Australia more than he gained.â --Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-260) and index.

Originally published titled: Raffaello! Raffaello! : a biography of Raffaello Carboni. - Sydney : Hale & Iremonger, 1985.

Previous edition titled: Stages of the revolution : a biography of Eureka Stockade's Raffaello Carboni. - Prahran, Vic. : Hardie Grant Books, 2004.