Vaggioli's Return: A Deserter's Adventures
Vaggioli's Return: A Deserter's Adventures
Category: Article
| Title | Vaggioli's Return: A Deserter's Adventures |
|---|---|
| Author | Felice Vaggioli, translated by John C. Crockett |
| Year | 2001 |
| Publication | Scoop Culture |
| Publisher | Scoop Media |
| Language | English |
| Geographic reference | Auckland, Gisborne, Coromandel |
| Time reference | 1870s-1880s |
| Online resource | YES |
| Topic | Felice Vaggioli, Catholic, Priest, autobiography, Missionaries, Missionari, Clero, Italian Missionaries, Missionari italiani in Nuova Zelanda, Māori, Italian priests in New Zealand, |
Press Release of the book A Deserter's Adventures, translated by John Crockett and published by Otago University Press.
Eighty years after his death, Dom Felice Vaggioli is finally being recognised as an important commentator on and personality in New Zealand's past. Last year saw the first English edition of the controversial History of New Zealand and Its Inhabitants, more than a hundred years after its original publication in Italian. Now translator John Crockett has brought to light a second book from the Italian missionary priest
Written after the completion of the history, A Deserter's Adventures is an autobiography, and is published for the first time by University of Otago Press. The manuscript was stored in Vaggioli's monastery in Italy and was found by Crockett during his research on the history. Crockett has translated the New Zealand section of the manuscript, which covers the period from 1879-1887, when Vaggioli worked in Auckland, Gisborne and Coromandel.
