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Raffaello Carboni (
December 15 1817 -
October 24 1875) was an
Italian writer. He is primarily remembered now as the author of the main eyewitness account of events at the
Eureka Stockade in
Ballarat,
Australia.
He was born in
Urbino,
Italy in 1817. Dedicated to the cause of Italian nationalism, he fought with the forces of
Mazzini and
Garibaldi to free Italy from
Austrian influence. After the fall of the Roman Republic (1849–1850), he fled to
London and then to
Melbourne after the discovery of gold. By the time of the
Eureka Stockade he'd been on or around the goldfields for almost two years, undertaking various leadership roles. On November 30 1854 he called on all miners "irrespective of nationality, religion or colour to salute the Southern Cross as a refuge of all the oppressed from all countries on Earth." Carboni, who was fiercely pro-digger, didn't fight at the stockade. He was, however, taken prisoner and tried for treason, but later acquitted in March, having been taken ill with dysentery in gaol. In July 1855 Carboni was elected to the local court at
Ballarat to adjudicate mining disputes. His book, 'The Eureka Stockade', the only complete first-hand description and analysis of the causes of the attack on the Eureka Stockade, was published a year after the uprising.
Carboni left Australia on 18 January 1856, sailing in the 'Impératrice Eugénie', and using some of the gold found at Ballarat to pay for his travels. After three years' travel during which he visited
Jerusalem and
Bethlehem, he returned to Italy and worked for a time as interpreter with the French army at Milan. He later transferred to
Genoa where
Agostino Bertani was organizing troops and supplies for the 'Expedition of the Thousand' to
Sicily. Carboni left Genoa in the 'Veloce' for Palermo, where he arrived on 24 June. His knowledge of languages afforded him a position of responsibility and he worked in the administration as interpreter and translator, starting in the office of the statesman Francesco Crispi. For a time he was entrusted with the secret Anglo-Italian correspondence between Crispi and Lord John Russell.
Following demobilisation, he travelled in Europe for a time, then settled in Naples for reasons of health. There he continued to publish his works, having already offered
Rita (1859),
La Campana Della Gancia (1861) and
La Santola (1861), copies of which he sent to
Peter Lalor and Sir
Redmond Barry. These and other works were separate items of his two Magna Opera,
Lo Scotta-o-Tinge, a collection of libretti and plays, and
La Ceciliana, their musical counterpart. None was represented on the stage, nor has his music been publicly performed. He died in
Rome at the St James Hospital, aged 58.
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