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'A vindication of his [Sceusa's] mother country Italy, on the occasion of his adopted country's, Australia's, centenary.' (Libraries Australia)
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Epigraph: Thou shall have proof how savoreth of salt/ The bread of others, and how hard a road/ The going down and up another's stairs. - Dante, Paradiso c.xvii
Author's note: To the Reader. Some people have found delight in wounding my national feelings during these last ten years, and now, driven at bay by the slanderous attacks of a vespernal metropolitan paper, upon my countrymen generally, I feel bound to show to Australia on the propitious day of her "coming of age," what Italy is among the sisterhood of nations, and that her despised sons living under the bright Australian sky, are as ready as ever to vindicate her fair name, even when the assailants may belong to the privileged race which now claims an exclusive right to the possession of this my adopted country....
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