D'Arcangeli, who married by proxy and was joined by his wife Fosca only in 1957, worked in Italy as a plumber and in Sydney (where he also helped found an association for his fellow villagers of Carpineto Romano) opened a small company and was the first to install a bidet in Australia.
My life for Carpineto
Carpineto Romano Source: By Philipp Pilhofer - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6051764
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Part 2 of the life story of Rolando D'Arcangeli, who arrived in Australia in 1956. Rolando had joined his brother Benito in Australia, who migrated in 1952 because - he says - "after the war in Italy there was poverty ".
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