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- Collection: Imaginative literature of the great migration: Fiction, poetry, drama, music, and art in books, magazines, and other works on paper
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Juvenilia: Italian and English Poems. New York: Saitta Press Co., 1928.
This was a gift from the author's son, also Pellegrino D'Acierno, distinguished literary scholar and professor at Hofstra U., now retired.
Autunno napoletano; Casa Gennarelli [Neapolitan Autumn]. New York: Italian Book Co., 1930.
On the cover, at bottom, it states "Copyright 1930 by Italian Book Co. 145-147 Mulberry Street New-York| This copy can be imported in the U.S. of A. only by Italian Book Co. of New-York." The work was actually published by the Casa Gennarelli,…
Femmena 'e triato: scene passionali ed umoristiche di ambiente di palcoscenico [Women and the Theatre: Passionate and Humorous Scenes in the Environs of the Stage]. Napoli: Casa ed. Ferd. Bideri, 1921.
"Copyright 1921 by Italian Book Co. "SOCIETA LIBRARIA ITALIANA" 145-147 Mulberry St.-New York Concessionaria esclusiva per gli Stati [sic] d'America e Canada." The actual publisher was the Neapolitan one noted above. But this sort of importing…
A festa 'e muntevergene ('Mmiezo Nola): Scene carateristiche di vita Napoletana in un atto [At Holiday: Scenes Characteristic of Neapolitan Life in One Act]. Napoli: Casa ed. Ferd. Bideri, 1923.
Like Femmena 'e triato, this work was an import by the Italian Book Company, which imported many works, holding copyright protection for the exclusive distribution of such imported works. This one is dated two years after Femmena 'e triato,…
137 racconti per dilettare e guidare gli italo-americani sulla via del bene: consigli, indovinelli, brindisi, proverbi [137 Tales to Delight and Guide Italian Americans on the Road to Happiness: Words of Advice, Riddles, Toasts, Proverbs]. Pittsburgh: Tip. De "La Stella di Pittsburgh," [n.d.]
There is no indication of authorship, no date of publication, or publisher, just the printer, namely, the Tipografia de "La Stella di Pittsburgh." I do not find it on OCLC or in the Italian library system.This copy was a gift to me from distinguished…
Il mago delle Alpi; ossia l'anello incantato| allegoria storica| farsa, commedia, melodramma e tragedia nel gran teatro del mondo| per passatempo ed istruzione degli italiani in America [The Magician of the Alps, or The Enchanted Ring, Historical Farse, Comedy, Melodrama and Tragedy in the Great Theatre of the World, for the Recreation and Instruction of Italians in America][Facsimile]. New York: Copyright 1889, by Augusto Bassetti, [Right of Translation Reserved], 1889.
The work contains "argomenti dei capitoli" (4 pp.)("argument of the chapters") prior to the full text; the story takes place 400 years ago, and was designed to appeal to Italian immigrants' preference for the romantic and chivalric tales that were a…
Poesie [Poetry]. Costacciaro: Comune di Costacciaro, 2001.
This volume contains facsimile reproductions of five books of Bartoletti's poetry, including Nostalgie proletarie, Riflessioni Poetiche, and Nel sogno d'oltretomba. With a fine introduction by Martino Marazzi, noted scholar of Bartoletti and of…
I miei ragli: raccolta di sonetti [My Brayings: a Collection of Sonnets]. New York: Tip. Ed. Nicoletti Bros, 1909.
With a preface by Alberto Frangini, this collection of 50 sonnets is one of two known works (the other is La colonia italiana di Baltimore, New York 1932, Societa Tipografica Italiana) by the Baltimore-based musician and professor of literature,…
Viva Rambolot! (Bozzetto in un atto) [Viva Rambolot! Sketch in one act]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, [n.d.]
This work depicts the domestic life of a prosecutor who tries to explain and justify his work activities to his daughter in the service of “the Law.”For a brief bio of Damiani (1876-1953), see entry for his La bottega. After the deaths of Galleani…
Poesie Varie [Diverse Poems]. New York: J.H.Turney [ptr], 1830.
"Pubblicate dall' Autore". This work, “published by the author,” of course long before the Great Migration, was dedicated to Domenico Rossetti di Scander, a wealthy patrician from Trieste mentioned with affection in the Memorie di Lorenzo Da Ponte…
Nofrio senzale di matrimoni [Nofrio, matrimonial agent][Facsimile]. New York: Casa ed. Biblioteca Siciliana (presso la "Follia"), 1919.
De Rosalia was a leader in the Italian American vaudeville scene in New York. He premiered on the New York stage in 1903, shortly after his arrival in America. In 1904, he became a teacher in the New York public schools, and gave English lessons to…
Dramas. New York: York Printing Co., 1909.
Flamma's signature is on the copyright page: "This edition is limited to One Thousand copies, each bearing Author's Autograph." One of his volumes of Dramas was issued in New York, in 1909, in a luxurious edition enriched by a letter (little more…
Fiamme: dramma in un atto; Memorie di un suicido: novella [Flames: Drama in One Act. Recollections of a Suicide]. New York: Nicoletti Bros. Editori, 1911.
Some years after Dramas, Flamma succeeded in getting Fiamme translated and published in English as Flames & Other Plays (New York, 1928). This volume consists of two works: the popular first-named play, originally written, performed, and…
Poesie di Thomas Fragale [Poems of Thomas Fragale]. Kansas City: Tipografia Mario Porretti, [1929].
Born in 1855, Fragale emigrated from a town near Catanzaro in Calabria in 1892. He wrote poetry while pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Hammondton, NJ, until 1900. The generally patriotic and pro-monarchial tone of his verses separates him from…
Polvere di stelle: liriche [Stardust: lyrical poems]. Brooklyn: Dimola Printing Co., 1952.
Maria Jaconis, author of this self-published work, was born in Aprigliano (CS) in 1931 and died in Cosenza in Calabria on March 16, 2023.In between, she lived in the United States, first in Accord, New York and then in the Bronx, from 1947 until…
Bolocchi e profumi: tango [Playthings and Fragrances: tango]. Napoli: Casa ed. Musicale Tip.-Lit. F. De Luca [imported by Italian Book Co.], 1929.
This sheet music, like much of this genre imported by the Italian Book Company from Italy, was published in Italy by Casa ed. Musicale Tip.-Lit. F. De Luca, Napoli.But in case there was any doubt, on the cover, the verso of the cover, and on page 2…
Le canzoni de l'ora [Songs of the Hour]. New York: Edizioni Sirena, 1945.
On who Federico Mennella was, see discussion under Rapsodia Napoletana. This dialect poem is in the same vein as that work.
Napule d'Aiere [Naples of Yesteryear]. New York: Cocce Press, 1944.
On who Federico Mennella was, see discussion under Rapsodia Napoletana. This dialect poem is in the same vein as that work.
Rapsodia napoletana [Neapolitan Rhapsody]. New York: Cocce Press, 1944.
Rapsodia napoletana is an epic story of the history of Naples from its founding as a Greek colony, composed of 105 sonnets written in the Neapolitan dialect. It includes a preface by Agostino de Biasi, publisher of Il Carroccio during most of its…
La bandierina di Carlo Marx: dramma in un atto [The Pennant of Karl Marx: drama in one act]. Chicago: Italian Labor Publishing Co., [1917?]
It is unclear if this play, which is noted in Durante's text but not his bibliography, was ever produced. It reflects the ideal of international solidarity of the proletariat. Born into a family of Italian landed proprietors, Molinari (b. 1876- d.…
Quando l'amore bussa…operetta in tre atti [When Love Comes Knocking. . . operetta in three acts]. Napoli: Casa Ed. Gennarelli, 1921.
This import of an operetta (with a book by Alfredo Napolitano, music by Oscar Cattedra) is itself dated and copyrighted 1922, a year after the 1921 publication in Italy. However, note the lower part of the cover, where the 1922 U.S. copyright is…
Tutto il dolore, tutto l'amore [All of the Pain, All of the Love: A novel in an Italian American Environment]. San Francisco: L'Italia Press Company, Ed., 1926.
The title page states, “Pubblicato nelle appendici del Giornale ‘L’Italia’ di San Francisco,” [Published as appendices of the San Francisco newspaper, L’Italia]. Like many of the works of both fiction and non-fiction (e.g., Carnovale, Il giornalismo)…
Per le vie del mondo [Along the Highways of the World]. Milano: C.E.Sonzogno (Matarelli), 1933.
This work also appeared as a serial in the Corriere d'America in 1922-23 published under the title Il romanzo d’un emigrate [The Novel of an Emigrant]. The main characters are its just and strong hero, Bruno Speri, who also appears in L’amante delle…
La carezza divina: romanzo [The Divine Caress: a Novel]. Milano: Casa ed. Sonzogno (Alberto Matarelli), 1939-XVII.
The special interest of this work is that it provides an autobiographical glimpse of Pallavicini, hidden behind the character Giorgio Albani. It provides a closeup and intimate portrayal of the "irresolute dualism of the children of the second…
I misteri di New York: romanzo storico sociale| di Menotti Pellegrino |con annesso| Il Grande Manuale Internazionale| degli| Annunzi [The Mysteries of New York: historical social novel of Menotti Pellegrino, and annexed, the Great International Manuale of Advertisements][Facsimile]. New York: Tip. Ital. U Di Luca & Benedetti, 1903.
I misteri di New York, a novel that speaks of crime, corruption and political entanglements within and outside the Italian community, is an “almost indecipherable hodgepodge,” according to Martino Marazzi. Yet Marazzi's Voices of Italian America: a…