The James J. Periconi Collection of Italian-language American imprints offers a unique insight into what Italian immigrants to the United States were reading, writing, and thinking about at the end of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. The Collection is housed at the Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library, Special Collections and Archives, Queens College, City University of New York.
This website serves as a catalog of the collection and is intended as a resource for scholars of Italian-American history. Please browse the material, seeing how tags can help you zero in on your particular interests, read related essays, and learn about the 2012 Strangers in a Strange Land exhibition at the Grolier Club of New York by using the navigation bar on the left side of this page.
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La donna e la famiglia: conferenza tenuta in Buenos Aires nel antico Teatro Iris, il 25 novembre 1900 [The Woman and the Family: lecture held in Buenos Aires in the old Teatro Iris, 25 November 1900]. Edizioni di propaganda Culmine: Buenos Aires, 1927.The founder (in 1925) and editor of the anarchist newspaper Culmine in Buenos Aires was an Italian anarchist named Severino Di Giovanni (b. 1901…
Rapsodie Mussoliniane: a cura del Gruppo Legionari AOI dell'Associazione Italiani all'estero [Mussolinian Rhapsodies] edited by the Gruppo Legionari AOI of the Association of Italians Abroad]. Alburnus Publishing Co.: New York, 1938 - XVII.The author of this poetic paen to Mussolini, born in Ottati (SA) in Campagna, was an optometrist or ophthalmologist whose office was in Brooklyn. He…