About Ottavio Barsanti
Lived 1825 – 1884 (aged 58–59). Ottavio Barsanti was a New Zealand missionary and writer.
Ottavio Barsanti (c.1826–23 May 1884) was an Italian Franciscan priest, writer, and missionary in New Zealand. He was born in Pietrasanta, Italy c.1826.
Barsanti was a professor in Italy for several years, before he travelled to New Zealand in 1860 in response to with Jean-Baptiste Pompallier’s call for missionary workers; he served at Rotorua, Lake Taupo and Parnell.
He published two books, New Zealand and its Inhabitants, and The Savages of New Zealand.
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Missionary, priest, writer (1825–1884)
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Ottavio Barsanti was born in 1825.
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Ottavio Barsanti died on 23 May 1884.
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Ottavio Barsanti was a missionary and writer.
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Ottavio Barsanti was New Zealand.
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