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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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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…
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,…
L'urto di due mondi: poemetto [The Collision of Two Worlds: a short poem]. [n.p.]: [n.p.], 1938.
Stamped on the title page - bare of any printed text except "L'Urto di due mondi" without "poemetto" much less author Zavattero's name - is "Libreria SOCIALE Italiana, Giuseppe Popolizio E Co., 232 East 123rd ST., New York, N.Y." That the bookstore…
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…
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 napoletane [Neopolitan Poetry]. Napoli: Cav. Ciro Russo, 1949.
With a preface by Pasquale Ruocco. Cenerazzo was an actor and author of theatre, poetry, songs and Neapolitan caricatures, who arrived in the U.S. at the age of 12. Self-taught, he collaborated with Francesco Ricciardi, performing duets and…
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…
I sotterranei di New York [The Undergrounds of New York]. New York: Società Libraria Italiana, 1915.
This novel is the 16th of 19 or 20 that Ciambelli authored over a long and productive career. Two of the others, La trovatella di Mulberry Street and I misteri di Mulberry Street (this latter in a facsimile copy only), are in the Collection. I have a…
Il martire del dovere, ovvero Giuseppe Petrosino - dramma in quattro atti [The Martyr to Duty, or Giuseppe Petrosino - a drama in four acts] [Reprint]. Napoli: Tullio Pironti, 2009 [n.d.].
One act of this recovered (by Durante) play is reproduced in Durante.Giuseppe Petrosino was the first head of the Italian squad of the New York City Police Department, and in charge of investigating the Mafia and its crimes in New York. On…
I misteri di Mulberry Street [The Mysteries of Mulberry Street] [Facsimile]. New York: Frugone & Balletto, [1893].
Martino Marazzi's Voices of Italian America: a History of Early italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology (Madison, 2004) contains an excerpt from this work in translation.Tipografia del "Bollettino della Sera"; notation of each of 37…
Lu sonnu di Monsignuri X: poimettu in lingua siciliana [The Sonnets of Monsignor X: Short Poem in Sicilian]. Brooklyn: Tip. Ital. del Rinascimento, 1912.
Dedicated to Riccardo Cordiferro. Pucciu (b. Italy, 1876; d. New York, 1927), or Puccio, was a sculptor and carver, with a studio in Brooklyn, as well as an accomplished dialect poet who began to publish verses in the literary and political magazine,…
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,…
Flamma Alitur [The Flame Still Burns]. New York: Nicoletti Bros Press, 1916.
This copy inscribed by author to Il Carroccio. Preface by Luigi Roversi.Salvo (b. Italy, 1889; active in New York through 1948), a freelance journalist, came to the U.S. in 1905. Based in New York, he collaborated in Italian language dailies and…
Per la libertà! (dalle mie conversazioni col Conte di Rudio, complice de Felice Orsini) [For Liberty! (of my conversations with Count di Rudio, accomplice of Felice Orsini)]. San Francisco: Canessa Printing Co., 1913.
For several years, I had a facsimile copy of this important work. Then to my surprise, the original - impossible to find - became available.Carlo Camillo Di Rudio (1832-1910), one of the most colorful of 19th century Italian immigrants, to be sure,…
Per la libertà! (dalle mie conversazioni col Conte di Rudio, complice de Felice Orsini) [For Liberty! (of my conversations with Count di Rudio, accomplice of Felice Orsini)] [Facsimile]. San Francisco: Canessa Printing Co., 1913.
Facsimile copy. I acquired this facsimile copy before I found the original. Kept in the collection as a reading copy, as the original is fairly fragile. See the original copy's description of this work.
Il tallone di ferro [Heel of Iron]. San Francisco: Gene's Print Shop. 1939.
This copy is inscribed by Crespi "to Liberto Nathan"; on verso of title page, the inscription continues "A Liberto Nathan per il suo buon successo -- nell'esame dell'Università 1940 [for his great success in his university exams, 1940]" & directs…
Rivista d'Italia e d'America [Magazine of Italy and of America]/ Italy-America Review. New York: Casa ed. della "Rivista d'Italia e d'America", 1926. Anno IV, Num. XI (novembre 1926).
This magazine "of Italy and of America," or in English "Italy-America Review," published in Rome, nominally has editorial addresses also in New York and Cordoba, Argentina, this last reflecting the magazine's boast that it covers Italian life in…
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.…
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…
La leggenda del Piave [The Legend of the Piave]. New York: Italian Book Company, 1918.
Note the copyright by the Italian Book Company both on the cover and at the bottom of the first page of this sheet music: "Copyright 1918 by the Italian Book Co. 145-147 Mulberry Street - New-York| This copy can be imported in the United States only…
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…
Faville [Sparks]. New York: Italian Book Co. 1922
This sheet music appears to be an import from Naples (though Naples is mentioned specifically only as the source of a recording on disk of the song), and distributed in New York by the Italian Book Company. As I have noted elsewhere, this arrangement…
Caricatures in four parts | Caricature in quattro parti. New York: La Follia di New York - Marziale Sisca, 1908.
This is the rare first edition of a series of editions of this popular collection of caricatures drawn by the great Neapolitan tenor, Enrico Caruso (b. Naples, 1873; d. Naples, 1921). La Follia di New York published Caruso’s caricatures in individual…
The New Book of Caricatures by Enrico Caruso. New York: La Follia di New York - Marziale Sisca, 1965.
This later edition, the most commonly available one (dated 1965), lacks the biographical entry at the outset, the ads at the end, and most of the Italian-language material. However, it does contain Caruso’s letters in the Italian original,…