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  • Collection: Periodicals: newspapers and magazines

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The Collection includes:Eresia, No. 1 - Aprile [April] 1928, Eresia, No. 2 - Maggio [May] 1928, Eresia, No. 3 - Luglio [July] 1928, Eresia, No. 4 - Agosto [August] 1928, Eresia, No. 5 - Settembre [September] 1928, Eresia, No. 9 - Marzo [March]…

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A monthly periodical edited by Vincenzo Vacirca. Contains part of novel Il rogo [The Pyre] by Vacirca; according to Durante, Il rogo continues into 1928. Vincenzo Vacirca (b. Sicily, 1886; d. Italy, 1956) was a member of the Socialist Party of…

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For biographical information on Vacirca, see entries for La Russia in fiamme and Il solco - the general entry for Jan.-Sept. 1927.The collection includes:La Strada, Anno 1, No. 4 - Settembre [September] 1937 La Strada, Anno 1, No. 6 - Novembre…

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Other editors include Renato Poggioli and Enzo Taglicozzo (Silvio Carli); the collection has Vol. 3 in two formats, one like other numbers, and an odd one smaller than the others.The collection includes: Quaderni italiani, Vol. 1 - Gennaio [January]…

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Managed by Flavio Venanzi. An extremely uncommon and short-lived radical journal, edited (and with numerous contributions by) the important IWW activist-dramatist-poet Arturo Giovannitti. Vita appears to have been seeking to emulate, for an…

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A monthly magazine edited by Ernesto Valentini. Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American collecting: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which…

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Controcorrente, Vol. XVI, No. 2 - Sept./Oct. 1959 Controcorrente, Vol. XVI, No. 3 - Nov./Dec. 1959 Controcorrente, Vol. 18, No. 1 - July/August 1961Controcorrente, Vol. 18, No. 6 - May/June 1962Controcorrente, Vol. 19, No. 4 - January/February…

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The collection includes:Nazioni Unite, Anno I, N. 1 - 5 Marzo [March] 1942Nazioni Unite, Anno I, N. 2 - 12 Marzo [March] 1942Nazioni Unite, Anno I, No. 3 - 19 Marzo [March] 1942Nazioni Unite, Anno I, No. 4 - 26 Marzo [March] 1942Nazioni Unite, Anno…

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The collection includes:La Legione, Vol. I, No. 4 -December 2, 1942 La Legione, Vol. I, No. 5 - December 17, 1942La Legione, Vol. II, No. 1 - January 1, 1943La Legione, Vol. II, No. 2 - January 18, 1943La Legione, Vol. II, No. 3 - February 1, 1943La…

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Divagando was a stylish monthly magazine, nearly all of whose articles were in Italian, begun in 1942-1943. Each issue contained a mix of essays, poetry, short stories, and columns. The Collection currently includes issues from 1943 to…

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Carlo Tresca was the editor-in-chief (or equivalent) at several radical newspapers over his career, but the one that he founded and ran for decades — Il Martello — is the one most closely identified with him, and he with it. Tresca founded Il…

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Just when you thought you could put all Italian American newspapers or magazines into "boxes" labelled one of the following, namely, (1) "Bourgeois- Prominente Class," (2) "Anarchist, socialist, et al., and anti-fascist", or (3) "Fascist,"  - that…

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Aldo (Aldino) Felicani, a typographer and anarchist who started newspapers in Cleveland and elsewhere in the U.S. and who was intimately involved in trying to save Sacco and Vanzetti (he was the treasurer of the Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Committee…

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The I.W.W. Italian language newspaper, Il Proletario, has a glorious and lengthy history of many decades and almost unique importance in the Italian American non-anarchist left. It was started by Italian socialists in 1896 in Pittburgh, and soon…

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A Milanese socialist newspaper founded in 1920, but then shut down by the fascists in 1921 following fascist reprisals in the aftermath of the bombing of the Diana Theatre in Milan, which was itself  carried out in protest of the continued detention…

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Two issues of the heavily-illustrated satirical weekly magazine, the covers each displaying a political caricature in addition to the magazine’s staple, a dancing smiling faun, all by Italian cartoonist Giovanni Viafora.Of course, this satirical…

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The collection includes:Italian imprint:L'Asino, Anno 14, No. 2 - 8 Gennaio [January] 1905 L'Asino, Anno 14, No. 3 - 15 Gennaio [January] 1905 L'Asino, Anno 14, No. 6 - 5 Febbraio [February] 1905 L'Asino, Anno 14, No. 7 - 12 Febbraio [February] 1905…

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The tone and political ideology of this long-lived magazine was always nationalistic (from inception, in 1915) and later (beginning in 1922, with the March on Rome) pro-fascist, as reflected in its largely political articles. But Il Carroccio also…

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Nos. 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9 (Jan. - Sept. 1927) are in the collection; these issues contain part of Vacirca's novel Il rogo [The Pyre]; according to Durante, Il rogo continues into 1928.Vincenzo Vacirca (b. Sicily, 1886; d. Italy, 1956) was a member of the…

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One of the longest-lived of the socialist publications, La Parola went through many name changes to evade postal authorities and for other reasons. This is a large-format, 336-page commemorative edition for the 50th anniversary of the newspaper whose…
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