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Almanacco enciclopedia italo americano 1913 [Italian American Encyclopedia Almanac for 1913]. New York: J. Personeni, 1913.
Note the advertisement on rear cover for L'Adunata dei Refrattari, not exactly consistent with the prominente press values that Personeni represented.
This otherwise general business-advertisement filled "almanac" is noteworthy for the 16-page…
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…
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…
Almanacco Italo-Svizzero Americano Anno 1881 [Italian-Swiss American Almanac Year 1881]. San Francisco: Pub. di J. F. Fugazi, "No. 5 Montgomery Avenue, San Francisco, California," 1881.
This earliest of the almanacs (of 6 or 7) in the Collection, published in San Francisco, lacks a book catalogue in the rear that the 1894 one by the same publisher in San Francisco possesses, q.v., but there are ads for bookstores and for newspapers,…
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…
America! America!: atti e memorie del popolo [America! America! Acts and Memoirs of the People]. Casalvelino Scalo [Salerno]: Ed. Giuseppe Galzerano, 1979 [1981].
Antonio Margariti (b. Ferruzzano, Reggio Calabria, Italy, 1891 – d. Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, 1981) published these memoirs in 1979 at age 87. This "savage and touching" book (Durante) awakened a vast interest, so much so as to be a finalist for…
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…
Berneri in Ispagna [Berneri in Spain]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1937.
Deported to Italy from the U.S. in 1919 with his leader, Luigi Galleani, author Schiavina returned illegally to the U.S. in 1928 using the name Max Sartin, editing L'Adunata dei Refrattari under that name until its demise in 1971. (Schiavina died in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Gli Americani nella vita moderna osservati da un italiano [Contemporary Americans, Observed by an Italian]. Milano: Fratelli Treves, Ed., 1909.
This comprehensive text on the United States for young Italians was written by the author of the later New York publication, Grammatica-enciclopedia italiana-inglese, q.v. Included is a history of the U.S., discussions on religion, politics, commerce…
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…
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…
Il supremo ideale umano raggiunto [The Supreme Ideal Human Reached]. Chicago: [n.p.], 1926.
One of the odder publications of Carnovale, a journalist whose most important work, also in the collection, is Il giornalismo degli emigrati italiani del Nord America. Carnovale seems to have prided himself on the breadth of genres in which to…
Italiani di America: Enciclopedia Biografica [Italians in America: Biographical Encyclopedia]. New York: Cocce Brothers, 1936.
Flamma (b. Cattomosetta, Sicily, 1882; d. New York, 1961) first emigrated to the United States in 1909. During the First World War, he was a volunteer with the American army. He lived in Chicago, where he worked as secretary of the Italian Chamber of…
Italiani di America: Enciclopedia Biografica Vol. III [Italians in America: Biographical Encyclopedia Vol. III]. New York: Cocce Brothers, 1949.
While this work calls itself "Volume III," it's really more a reprint of the original work from 13 years before but supplemented by additional names. Clearly, the original was successful enough that Flamma (or Cocce Press) thought it worthwhile to…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
Mémoires de Lorenzo D'Aponte [Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte]. Paris: Pagnerre, 1860.
This French version of Da Ponte's memoirs, q.v., dated 1860, translated from the Italian by M.C.D. De la Chavanne, still pre-dated by a couple of decades any publication in Italian in Italy of this work, so critical of the Austro-Hungarian empire…
Memorandum coloniale ossia sintesi storica di osservazioni e fatti che diano un'idea generale della vita coloniale degli italiani nel Nord America con monografia illustrativa della colonia di Philadelphia [Colonial Memorandum, or Historical Synthesis of Observations & facts which give a general idea of the colonial life of Italians in North America with an illustrated monograph of the colony of Philadelphia]. Philadelphia: "La Forbice", 1911.
This is stated to be second volume; no copy of this second volume found in any library. The first volume was published by "Mastro Paolo" in 1910-1912, copies of which are in the Rutgers & U. of Michigan libraries. On rear cover, notice that "Il…