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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…
Fra gli italiani degli Stati Uniti d'America [Among the Italians of the United States of America]. Roma: Stabilimento Poligrafico per l'amministrazione della guerra, 1922.
Siciliani (b. 1879 Ciro, Calabria - d. Roma 1938) was capo (or head) di Stato Maggiore (the general staff) to General Pietro Badoglio at the time of publishing this work about his trip to America. The work begins with a facsimile of a handwritten…
Le teorie di Cesare Lombroso: spiegate agli operai [The Theories of Cesare Lombroso, explained for workers]. Chicago: Edito a cura della "LIBRERIA SOCIALE", 1920.
The "secondo migliaio [second thousand]" noted on the cover and title page suggest this was a popular work. Specific issues discussed, after a biography of Lombroso, are "Delinquent Man," "Lombroso and the Man of Genius," "Lombroso and the…
Attraverso gli Stati Uniti per l'imagrazione italiana [Across the United States - through Italian Immigration]. Torino: Union Tip.-Ed. Torinese, 1913.
This copy of the celebrated study by Mayor des Planches (b. Turin, 1851; d. Rome, 1920), written during his years in the U.S., is inscribed by the author to a baronessa. During his travels across the U.S., while ambassador to Washington from…
Della convenienza che l'Italia artistica ed industriale partecipi all'esposizione di Saint-Louis (Missouri) [Of the Advantage for Artistic and Industrial Italy taking part in the Exposition of Saint-Louis (Missouri)]. Torino: Tip. Roux e Viarengo, 1904.
Inscribed by author, former Italian ambassador to Washington, this is a lecture that he was invited to give in late 1903 at several Chambers of Commerce of the Kingdom to demonstrate the advantage that Italian arts and industries would receive by…
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…
Tre anni [1937-39] di lavoro in difesa degli immigrati italiani in America [Three Years [1937-39] of Work in Defense of Immigrant Italians in America]. New York: Comitato italiano per la difesa degli immigrati, 1940.
The leader of the Italian Committee for the Defense of Immigrants, Edward Corsi (b. Capestrano (L'Aquila) 1896 - d. New York 1965) immigrated to the U.S. in 1907 at the age of ten with his mother and step-father. A studious boy, he frequented Harlem…
Almanacco illustrato dell'Elvezia: dono agli abbonati del 1895 [Illustrated Almanac of the "Elvezia", a gift for its subscribers in 1895]. San Francisco: L'Elvezia, [1894].
One of the earlier of the almanacs (of about 6 or 7) in the Collection. This 1895 Italo-Svizzero Americano almanac was published in San Francisco, Pietro Magetti handwritten owner name on cover. This is the "Supplemento all'Elvezia no. 7" that…
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.…
La via del Paradiso [The Way of Paradise]. New York: Casa ed. N. Morgillo, [1909].
A curious play with Saint Peter, Pope Pius VI, Vittorio Emanuele II, Garibaldi, all at the entrance to heaven. "Pietro" (mispelled "Pitero") says to himself, "It's really worth the trouble to abandon the lake, the fishing nets, the free life, to…
La prima santa d'America: vita di Madre Cabrini [The First Saint in America: life of Mother Cabrini]. Brooklyn: Casa Ed. Fortuna Publishing, 1944.
La prima santa d’America reflects the intense pride in Mother Cabrini that continued to exist nearly thirty years after her death. Although she was not canonized a saint until 1946, the title of this work predicts it with certainty, which is not…
Directory of Italian-Americans in Commerce and Professions-1937. Chicago: Continental Press, 1937.
First Edition [stated]; ex-libris copy (The Free Library of Philadelphia). Detailed directory by State and major City. Promises a bigger and better 1938 such Directory, but I have not found evidence that one was in fact published.
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.
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…
Storia della Sicilia nelle rivoluzioni e rivolte [Story of Sicily in Revolutions and Revolts]. New York: Italian Publishers, 1934.
This is an unnumbered signed copy ("ogni copia deve portare la firma dell'autore [every copy should carry the signature of the author]").Of Gaspare Nicotri, the New York Times obituary of October 14, 1955, notes that he was an "Italian lawyer,…
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…
Saggio su di una concezione filosofica dell'anarchismo [Essay on a Philosophical Conception of Anarchism]. Pistoia: Fondazione-Archivio, famiglia Berneri, 1991.
Damiani's popularity remains strong, as this relatively recent (1991) publication suggests.
Gl'Italiani negli Stati Uniti del Nord [Italians in the United States of North [America]][Facsimile]. Milano: Libreria Ed. Milanese, 1909.
This is a young Preziosi, a thoughtful observer of Italians in America, a sociological perhaps even more than an historical work. It is almost unrecognizable from the writer's later pro-fascist and anti-Semitic phase during the Fascist era.
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…
Al microfono: discorsi trasmessi alla Radio -Stazione W.O.F. [sic] [At the Microphone: talks transmitted on Radio Station W.O.F.]. New York: [n.p.], 1937.
As the title of this self-published work states, these are transcriptions of talks transmitted by the author to his radio audience in 1937. The talks include mostly anodyne subjects, like "Holy Thursday," "Goodness," "The Book" - "if good, is your…
I trapiantati [The Transplanted]. Milano: Longanesi & Co., 1963.
Taking in this amalgam of columns he wrote for an Italian newspaper a sometimes sympathetic but often condescending view of Italian Americans, not atypical for Italians of his class and that period of time, Prezzolini said they were not a "blend" of…
America in pantofole: un impero senza imperialisti| Ragguagli| intorno alla trasformazione degli Stati Uniti| dopo le guerre mondiali [America in Slippers: an empire without imperialists: pieces of information about the transformation of the United States after the world wars]. Firenze: Vallechi Ed., 1950.
Director of the Casa Italiana at Columbia during the fascist era, Prezzolini is mostly remembered as a fascist sympathizer. His views nevertheless remain useful as a measure of the prejudices against Italian Americans by educated Italians of his…
La democrazia e l'emigrazione in America [Democracy and Emigration in America]. Brescia: Morcelliana, 1964.
The signature stamp of Leonard Covello, the profoundly influential Italian-American educator in East Harlem, reflects his ownership of this copy of Dore's work, surely one of the four or five most highly cited sources of historical and sociological…
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…
Ricciardiana: raccolta di scritti, racconti, memorie, ecc., el veterano attore e scrittore [Ricciardiana: collection of stories, memoirs, etc., of the veteran actor and writer]. New York: Eloquent Press Corp. - N. Morgillo, 1951.
Inscribed by the author, an actor and writer, to Angelo Antignacci; preface by Pasquale di Biasi.Ricciardi (b. 1871, Sorrento - d. 1961, Naples) acted in several notable movies, including Anthony Adverse (1936), San Francisco (1936), where he played…