Carboni, regretably half-forgotten:
Carboni cuts a bit of a tragic figure. Twice involved in the Italian independance movement, in 1848 and after 1860, and also a prominent figure at Eureka. He cuts a tragic figure. He returned to Italy to find his father dead and his inheritance in the hands of a step-mother, his older brother a failed school-teacher with a reputation for violence against his students. All Carboni seemed to want was to become a sucessful playwright, and no-one would give him the time of day. And in Australia his name is stained, labeled a braggart and a coward by Frederick Vern; mud that stuck.
Raffaello deserves a larger place in Australian history; instead what we have is John MacArthur getting suburbs named after him and his mug on the old $2 note.
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