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Dalla Conca d'Oro al "Golden Gate": studii e impressioni di viaggi in America [From the Golden Valley to the "Golden Gate": studies and impressions of travels in America]. New York: Canorma Press, 1928.
As noted in the entry for Nicotri's work on the history of revolution and revolt in Sicily, of Gaspare Nicotri, the New York Times obituary of October 14, 1955, notes that he was an "Italian lawyer, educator and sociologist" who died at age 81. While…
Anni d'America. Lecce: Prem. Tipo-Litografia Prof. Vincenzo Masciullo, 1922.
Forzato-Spezia, a formidable orator and thinker, used an Italian publisher for this account of her years in America, drawn from articles she had published in newspapers in America. She noted in the dedicatory note to "Eros, mio figlio [Eros, my son]"…
Leonardo: Annual Magazine of the Leonardo Da Vinci Art School. New York: Leonardo da Vinci Publishing House, MCMXXV [1925].
This is the only "annual" like this for this important school for working men and women - that is, there were night (as well as day) classes for those who had other daytime jobs. Connections to writers in the Collection are many: e.g., the…
La stampa periodica Italiana all'estero [Facsimile]/ [The Italian periodical press abroad]. Milano: Il Comitato Ordinatore, 1909.
Fumagalli's work on the Italian periodical press abroad is perhaps the most frequently cited of the late 19th/early 20th c. such works. This work is Volume IV of a series, Gli italiani all'estero: collana di studi e documenti scelti dal materiale…
Gli Italiani negli Stati Uniti [The Italian American Experience]. New York: Arno Press, 1975.
This is the Arno Press (New York Times) reprint of the original work (also in the collection, q.v.).This volume includes Pietro Russo's important and oft-cited "La stampa periodica italo-americana," a basic work for understanding the Italian-American…
Sull'Oceano [On the Ocean]. Milano: Fratelli Treves, 1897.
De Amicis (b. 1846 Piedmonte-Sardegna - d. 1908 Bordighera, Italy) was a novelist, journalist, travel-writer, poet and short-story writer. In 1896, just a year before publication of Sull'Oceano, De Amicis became a member of the Italian Socialist…
Diario di una piccola profuga friulana: episodi dell'invasione del Veneto, 1917 [Diary of a little Friulian refugee: episodes in the invasion of the Veneto, 1917]. New York: Il Carroccio, 1919.
This "diario," with both dated and undated entries in November 1917 through the same month in 1918, is a memoir of Maria Luisa Francesconi, a refugee from Friuli to the U.S. Her travails within Italy by train to escape aerial bombardment of the…
L'America ne' suoi primi fattori: la colonizzazione e l'emigrazione: Nuovi Orizzonti [America in its first factors: colonization and emigration: New Horizons]. Firenze: Tip. di G. Barbera, 1893.
This work of activist (in Italy) Giuseppe Godio first presented as part of "new horizons" the idea here that sending Italians to live in less than welcoming (economically, culturally, and climatically) colonies in Africa like Eritrea was expensive…
Gabriele D'Annunzio: nella vita e nell'arte [Gabriele D'Annunzio: in Life and in Art]. New York: Cocce Bros., 1938.
This is a lengthy essay by Riccardo Cordiferro on perhaps the then most celebrated political, journalistic and literary figure of Italy, who was also known for the torrid love affair he carried on with actress Eleonora Duse. D’Annunzio had a…
America: Primo Amore [America: First Love]. Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1959.
This is the fourth edition of this work, which is an account of the author's two years in America immediately following the stock market crash of 1929, when he taught at Columbia University. It was first published in 1935 by Bemporad (Florence), and…
Gli Italiani negli Stati Uniti: L'emigrazione e l'opera degli italiani negli Stati Uniti d'America Atti del III Symposium di Studi Americani Firenze, 27-29 Maggio 1969. Firenze: Istituto di Studi Americani Universita degli studi di Firenze, 1969.
This is a fine early collection of essays by both Italian American and Italian scholars about the emigration and work of Italians in the U.S. The essays arise from a symposium of American studies at Florence in May 1969, very soon after the beginning…
Perché la guerra in Africa [Why the War in Africa?]. New York: Casa ed. "Unità"/ Società ed. "L'Unità", [1935?]
We can estimate the date of this work because the introduction begins from the vantage point of "21 years after the beginning of the last world war," which was 1914; thus, it is 1935.Among the advertisements on the recto of the last leaf is that of…
Voglio disturbare l'America: Lettere a Benedetto Croce e Giovanni Papini ed altro| A cura di Gabriel Cacho Millet [I Want to Trouble America: Letters to Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Papini, ed. by Gabriel Cacho Millet]. Firenze: La Casa Usher, 1980.
The path the life of Carnevali (1897-1942) took was unlike that of any other Italian American of his era. Emigrating to the US in 1914, after odd jobs, he taught Italian to Joel Spingarn, a Columbia University comparative literature professor.…
L'ordine figli d'Italia in America. New York: Società Tipografica Italiana, 1925.
We have some biographical details about Aquilano, a free-lance journalist, from Flamma's Italiani di America (b. Chieti, 1885; d. New York?). He directed out of Milan the daily, and still one of today’s most popular Italian-language newspapers, Il…
Il libro dei santi. New York: Variety Bazaar & Italian Book, 1942.
The front cover provides some bibliographic information in Italian, translated here as: “Printed exclusively for the newspaper L’Italia 1500 Stockton Street, San Francisco, Cal.” This information is not on the title page.This is the rare publication…
Gli Stati Uniti d'America: l'emigrazione italiana [The United States of America: Italian Emigration]. Milano: Fratelli Treves, Ed., 1912.
Despite a title that suggests that the book is principally about Italian immigration to the U.S., in fact two thirds of the book is about the US generally (including some chapters about other immigrant groups). Only about one third is about Italian…
Gli Italiani negli Stati Uniti d'America [Italians in the United States]. New York: Italian American Directory Co., 1906.
Published as a result of the organizing committee of the 1906 Milan Exposition directing Italian Chambers of Commerce around the world to prepare a volume in a series about “gli Italiani all’estero” (Italians abroad), this Italian-language work was…
La Russia in fiamme [Russia in Flames]. New York: Casa Editrice "I Giovani", 1919.
The subject of La Russia in fiamme is one Vacirca knew well from his interviews (while a senator in Italy) with Lenin and Trotsky: the Russian Revolution, from its inception in 1917. The first few pages feature quotations in French (Romain Rolland)…
Attività Italiane in America [Italian Activities in America]. San Francisco: Mercury Press, 1930.
This bilingual work principally by a wealthy, upper-class San Francisco Italian, G. M. Tuoni, provides useful information about Italians on the West Coast that is often lacking in East Coast-oriented histories of Italians in the same period and…
Con la patria nel cuore: la mia propaganda fra gli emigranti [With the Fatherland in my Heart: My Propagandizing among the Immigrants]. Palermo: Casa ed. D'Antoni, 1925.
Francesco Durante refers to Teresi (b. Alia (Palermo), Italy 1875 - d. Rochester, NY 1971) as an Italian-American intellectual. He came to the U.S. in 1907, earned a law degree here, and became a bank teller in Rochester. He wrote the preface to…
Separazione: una follia, ed un delitto: discorso di lodevole J.R. Ingersoll [Secession: a Folly and a Crime: discourse on the praiseworthy J.R. Ingersoll]. Philadelphia: King & Baird, 1862.
Facing page translation by C. G. Moroni, Professor of Italian, of this essay, which is dated 1861.This U.S. Civil War era work argues against secession of the Southern States from the Union. The translator's address to the author explains that…
Un viaggio nell' America del Nord [A Trip in North America]. Torino: Uff. Delle Let. Cattoliche, 1906.
The author is Padre Laurenti, "di C. di G.", which I believe means Laurenti was a Jesuit (the "Compagnia di Gesu" or Society of Jesus). His interest in North America, and a focus of his travels in this report, is the spread of the Catholic religion…
Le mie prigioni; adapted for English schools [My Prisons]. London: Librairie Hachette, 1884.
This is Silvio Pellico's much reprinted memoirs of his 10 years imprisonment in the Hapsburg's prison in Spielberg for advocating for the freedom of Italy from Bourbon rule. There in prison he met several Italians who became refugees to the U.S.,…
Solidarity: published on the occasion of G.D. Procopio's 60th birthday. Brooklyn: Shoe Service Union of US of A., AFL-CIO, 1950.
The papers of the honoree of the event on the occasion of his 60th birthday, long-time labor leader Giuseppe D. Procopio, are at the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota.
Storia della Sicilia Antica [History of Old Sicily]. New York: Divagando Corporation, 1955.
This work was illustrated by John Abys, who also, as Giovanni Abys, illustrated both the 1912 original and the 1944 reissue of L'Assassinio della Contessa Trigona, q.v.The Divagando Corporation was presumably the publisher also of the more well known…