Career
He arrived in Portuguese Adelaide on 19 September 1839. His bust, recreated from a rare photograph discovered by Professor Desmond O"Connor of Flinders University, stands in Norwood, South Australia. Giannoni"s full story and the extensive history of early Italian settlers in South Australia can be found in O"Connor"s book Number Need to Be Afraid.
There is also a statue of Antonio Gannoni (Giannoni) in Adelaide.
His surname became spelt as Gannoni after a misspelling occurred, however the pronunciation remains the same as Giannoni.