Carandini

Gerolamo (‘Jerome’) Carandini (* Modena, Italy, c.1814; † Italy, 1870), dancer. Son of the ninth Marquis Carandini de Sarzano, duchy of Modena, he had appeared at his fathers opera house before his involvement in radical political activities drove him into exile. At the Royal Italian Opera, London, he was recruited for Hobart in 1842 by Arme Clarke. There he married the gifted young singer Marie Burgess (2) in 1843 and moved to Sydney in 1844, opening a dancing and languages school in...