La spedizione del Marchese di Rays e le sue vittime
Abstract
Sceusa aided the victims of the Marquis de Rays expedition, and wrote this account of their experiences in La Spedizione del Marchese di Rays e le sue Vittime (1881).
| Date |
1881-01-01 |
| Subject | |
| Category | |
| Author |
Francesco Sceusa |
| Publisher |
H.R. Woods |
| Keywords |
early settlement |
| Creator |
Comitato Italiano di Soccorso (Australia) |
| Current holder | |
| Link | |
| Item number |
998.4/S |
| Access rights |
Request at location |
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| Language | |
| Description from source |
54 p. ; 22 cm. Mitchell Library copy at DSM/ 889.4/ S has David Scott Mitchell bookplate, and is inscribed ‘To the editor of the S.M.Herald, the Author’ Mitchell Library volume at DSM/ 042/ P269 signed, ‘D.S. Mitchell’ on handwritten contents list; volume has bookbinder’s label: “W. Christie”; item has: “Sir Alfred Stephens Chief Justice. The Author” written above title; item bound with other unsigned items; volume has “A.S.” bookplate on front cover. “Pubblicata per mandato del Comitato Italiano di Soccorso, ecc.” Sceusa’s work La spedizione del Marchese di Rays e le sue vittime was also published in instalments in Giornale illustrato dei viaggi e delle avventure di terra e di mare, starting from No.212 of the 21st September 1882. The previous issue announced its publication as follow: “Col prossimo numero cominceremo la pubblicazione dell’importante scritto di Francesco Sceusa intorno alla Spedizione del marchese di Rays che smaschera molti inganni e rivela molti dolori dell’emigrazione” (Giornale illustrato dei viaggi e delle avventure di terra e di mare, No.211, 14th September 1882, p.10) |
| Physical format |
Books |
| Bibliographic citation |
Gianfranco Cresciani, “Kookaburra e Kultur: Francesco Sceusa tra miti e realtà australiani”, in Italia-Australia, 1788-1988. Atti del Convegno di Studio, Rome, Castel S. Angelo, 23-27 maggio 1991, pp. 261-275. Rosemary Harrigan, They were expeditioners: the chronicle of Northern Italian farmers – pioneer settlers of New Italy with documentation of the Marquis de Rays’ four expeditions to New Ireland between 1879 and 1881 (Werribee, Vic. : Rosemary Harrigan, 2006.) Josephine Hyacinthe, The phantom paradise: the story of the expedition of the Marquis de Rays (London : Angus & Robertson, 1980). |
| File |
Abstract from La spedizione del marchese di Rays e le sue vittime |
| Place of Publication |
Sydney |
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