Includes index. "First edition published as Raffaello! Raffaello! by Hale & Iremonger, 1985" --T.p. verso. In December 1854 the goldminers at Ballarat made a stand for workers$' rights and democracy in an uprising that became known as the Eureka Stockade. Among them was an Italian, Raffaello Carboni, who had come to Australia to make his fortune.