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Rose Rosse e Rose Gialle. Naples: Alfredo Guida, Ed., 1957That Armando Cenerazzo had already emigrated to New York before this 1957 publication is clear from the encomiums for his poetry published in the back…
Elementi di Tecnocrazia. [New York]: Libreria Popolare Italiana, [1935].During the Great Depression, the Technocracy Movement (which proposed replacing politicians with engineers and technical experts to solve the economic…
Il sabotaggio. New York: Federazione Socialista Italian del Nord America, [1910-1915?].This is a translation of a French work originally entitled Le Sabotage, which was a seminal 1898 treatise by French anarcho-syndicalist Émile Pouget.…
Nuovissima Grammatica Italiana-Inglese con Pronunzia Figurata. New York: Italian Times Publishing Co., 1971Note the seemingly extraordinarily late date of 1971 on the verso of the half title page. That Italian immigrants in the wave that again began in the…
Volfango: dramma in quattro atti. Caltanisetta (Sicily): Stabilimento Tip. Ospizio Provinciale di Beneficenza Umberto I, 1900Before emigrating to the U.S. and changing his name to Ario Flamma, Pignato published, using a modified form of his own name, Volfango: dramma in…
Il segretario galante | per imparare a scrivere lettere amorose di discordia e di accomodamento | aggiuntovi l'epistolario amoroso degli amanti celebri | ed altri scritti galanti. New York: Nicoletti Bros. Press, [1913]So-called "secretaries," books of examples of how to write letters, were one of the more popular kinds of books printed by Italian American printers,…
Neapolitan Songs 1910-1919- music & lyrics: La Regina del Contado, I Viaggiatori, 'Nu prufessore 'e scherma (macchietta), Tore . . . chiacchiera bella... (macchietta), Il mio naso!, La duchessa (macchietta), L'amore in Villa!... (stornelli), Le mándorle più belle, Viperer, Baciami e..poi !.., So' semp''o stesso!This treasure trove, a generous gift to the Collection from distinguished Italian-Americanist Professor Bénédicte Deschamps, includes 11 pieces of…
NIx: il Figlio dell'Austriaco. New York: Società Libraria Italiana, 1920.Although he had published a few works before 1920, including La guerra italo-austriaca, q.v. in the Collection, this is Pallavicini's first novel.…
Why Italy Entered into the Great War| Perchè l'Italia è Entrata Nella Grande Guerra. Chicago: Italian-American Publishing Company, 1917.Carnovale's massive (673 pp., English version followed by Italian original) work begins with the "Introduction: A Question. An Insinuation. A…
Il Guado| numero uno di arte e letteratura| a cura di A[tillio]. Valdettaro[,]| F[ederico]. Barocci. Hereford [Texas], Giugno 1944This extraordinary work is a very high-quality xerographic facsimile (of a kind not possible until the 1990s) of the bound volume Il Guado (The Ford)…
Abbamonte, Salvatore. 1907. Patria e donna: Episodio della guerra italo-austriaca del 1859. Dramma in un prologo e 4 atti. New York:…
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…
Libreria S.F. Vanni: supplemento al catalogo generale [S.F. Vanni Bookstore: supplement to the general catalogue]. S.F.Vanni: New York, 1925.This 78-page "supplement" to the general catalogue is a lengthier version of virtually the same items, and types of items, for sale in the earlier,…
Libreria S.F. Vanni: - ultima novità e ristampe - supplemento al catalogo generale della Libreria S.F. Vanni [S. F. Vanni Bookstore: latest news and reprints- supplement to the general catalogue of the S.F. Vanni Bookstore]. New York: Libreria S.F. Vanni, 1924.Vanni's was the longest standing fixture of Italian books in New York, whether at 528 West Broadway (in the early 20th c., when it distributed and…
La peste religiosa [The Religious Plague]. La Libreria Rossa: New York, [n.d.].This anti-clerical tract by Johann Joseph Most (b. Augsburg (Bavaria) 1846 - d. Cincinatti, OH 1906) begins: "Among the many mental diseases that man…
Libreria Sociale de "La Parola [del Popolo]" [Social Bookstore of "La Parola" [newspaper]]. Chicago: Italian Labor Publishing Co., [n.d.].This twice-folded single sheet 8-page catalogue of books contains works sold by the Libreria Sociale attached to the newspaper La Parola del Popolo.…
Primo Maggio: bozzetto drammatico in un atto, con prologo in versi ed inno corale [May Day: dramatic sketch in one act, with prologue in verse and choral hymn]. This work is important in and of itself as the exemplar of the kind of plays that socialists and anarchists staged during their celebrations of Primo…
Dibattito sulla "Esistenza di Dio" tra il Rev. Amedeo Santini e il Prof. Giuseppe Bertelli [Debate on the "Existence of God" between the Reverend Amedeo Santini and Professor Giuseppe Bertelli]. Chicago: Italian Labor Publishing Co., 192-.Anti-clericalism was a parallel theme for the political theories and principles of socialists and anarchists. They rejected the Church and its…
Il liquorista universale: manuale contenente segreti e ricette per fare liquori, rosolii, sciroppi, vini artificiali, birra, acque rosoliate, olii, bevande, veleni, elisir, creme, tinture, vernici e veleni [The universal distiller: handbook containing secrets and recipes for making liquors, rosolios, syrups, artificial wines, beer, rosewater, oils, drinks, poisons, elixirs, creams, tinctures, varnishes and poisons [sic]]. New York: Società Libraria Italiana, [1930s-1940s?].A collection of recipes for all kinds of liquors, this handbook also contains recipes for varnishes (or veneers) and insect poisons to kill bedbugs.…
Colloqui con Kropotkine su l'anarchia [Colloquy with Kropotkin on anarchy]. Forlì: l'Aurora, [194-].As late as the second half of the 1940's, and thus well after Mussolini's death, Armando Borghi continued to publish anti-fascist and anarchist tracts…
Qualcuno guastò la festa [Someone ruined the holiday]. Brockton, MA: [n.p.], 1924.Who was Virginio Della Vesa? explain.
La produzione: Le sue basi-I suoi mezzi, Le sue funzioni, I suoi scopi [Production: its bases, its means, its functions, its scope]. Newark: L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1942.Gold O’Bay was one of several pseudonyms used by Tintino Rasi (b. Genoa, 1893; d. Philadelphia, 1963). Rasi was an anarchist at an early age in Genoa,…
Le basi della societa e del diritto [The bases of society and of the law]. Newark: L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1940. Gold O’Bay was one of several pseudonyms used by Tintino Rasi (b. Genoa, 1893; d. Philadelphia, 1963). Rasi was an anarchist at an early age in Genoa,…
La grande rivoluzione in marcia [The great revolution on the march]. Newark: L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1940.Gold O’Bay was one of several pseudonyms used by Tintino Rasi (b. Genoa, 1893; d. Philadelphia, 1963). Rasi was an anarchist at an early age in Genoa,…