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- Collection: Political subversives II: Anarchists (all types), socialists, syndicalists, communists, anti-clericals
Organizzazione e anarchia [Organization and Anarchy]. Paris: L. Chauvet, [1927?]That the story of the transnational work of a figure like Malatesta was written in Italian, published in New York, and printed in Paris by an Italian…
La vigilia: dramma in tre atti [On the Eve: drama in three acts]. East Boston: Edizione Del Gruppo Autonomo, 1917.La vigilia is the first Italian translation “by A.M.G.” — who would be known by readers to be Arturo M. Giovannitti — of Leopold Kampf’s popular play…
Che cosa e l'I.W.W.?: una candida dichiarazione dei suoi principii, scopi e metodi [What is the I.W.W.? A candid declaration of its principles, scope and methods]. Chicago: Ed. a cura della I.W.W., 1923.This is the Italian language version, so stated, of an English language publication "What is the I.W.W.?" Translated by Mario De Ciampis from the…
Rivoluzione e controrivoluzione [Revolution and Counter-Revolution: Manifesto of the militants and the Reunited Anarchist Groups of North America]. Brooklyn: Comitato dei Gruppi Riuniti Galilei Club, 1944.The Galilei Club was another chosen name for an anarchist group, reflecting the independence of its namesake (whose last name the group used, rather…
Se dovessi parlare agli elettori: ecco quanto direi loro [If I Had to Speak with the Electorate, Here is What I Would Tell Them]. East Boston: Gruppo Autonomo, [191-?]Translation of work of French anarchist anti-electoral essay. Gruppo Autonomo was Galleani's violent anarchist cell that included Sacco &…
Canti d'esilio: poesie varie. Vol XIII: Seconda edizione [Songs of Exile: diverse poems. Vol. XIII. Second edition]. Milano: Ed. Moderna, 1948.Preface by Pasquale Binazzi (1873-1944) written years before this publication, an ardent follower of Gori, refers to this as the 12th (not 13th)…
Unionismo industriale e Sindacalismo [Industrial and Trade Unions]. Brooklyn: Casa ed. Lavoratori Industriali del Mondo, 1923.The title page states Giantino as the author, with no publication date; however, this pamphlet begins with an introduction by Mario De Ciampis dated…
Sassate: prosa rimata al sugo di limone [Throwing Stones: prose rhymed in lemon sauce]. New York: Libreria Popolizio, [1952]."Gavroche" (the name of the street urchin in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables) is a pseudonym that two Italian book dealers identify as Gigi Damiani. No…
Per le nuove generazioni [For the New Generations]. New York: Nicoletti Bros Press, 1911.Born in Modena in 1877, Forzato-Spezia emigrated with her husband to the U.S. in 1891, and settled in West Hoboken, NJ. She opened a bookstore there…
L'impostura religiosa: la chiesa: Prima traduzione dal francese [Religious Deception: the Church: first translation from the French]. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello", 1925.With a preface by Giuseppe Altieri, who is perhaps also the translator from French, although nothing in Altieri's preface suggests as much. There is…
Uno storico processo di classe: I precedenti e lo svolgimento del processo dell'I.W.W. a Chicago, Illinois [An Historic Class Trial: the records and the development of the trial of the I.W.W. in Chicago]. [Chicago]: [Libreria Ed. I.W.W.], [1919].The title on the cover also states, “Giustizia Capitalista” (Capitalist Justice), not present on title page. This work recounts the mass trial of…
Le dittature: contro la libertà dei popoli [Dictatorships: against the Freedom of the People]. New York: "ll Martello" Pub. Co., Inc., [192-?].The verso of the cover of this pamphlet states “(Tradotto dal supplemento de La Protesta di Buenos Aires)” (translated from the supplement of La…
Unionismo industriale e trade-unionismo: può un socialista e industrialista far parte dell'A.F. of L.?: resoconto stenografico del contradittorio tra [Ettor] and [Caroti] tenutosi a New York il 26 Marzo 1911 [Industrial Unionism and Trade Unionism: Can a socialist and industrialist belong to the A[merican] F[ederation] of L[abor]? Stenographic account of the debate between Joseph J. Ettor and Arthur Caroti held in New York on the 26th of March 1911]. Chicago: I.W.W., [1911].In the year following this “debate” between the revolutionary trade unions of the I.W.W. (and the Federazione) and the reformist A.F. of L., Joseph…
A proposito d'un regicidio?; Biblioteca "Questione Sociale" Nono Opuscolo [What About a Regicide? Library of "La Questione Sociale," Ninth Pamphlet]. Paterson: Tipo. De "El Despertar," 1900.Gaetano Bresci, the Italian American silkworker in Paterson travelled to Italy to assassinate Italian King Umberto, and succeeded in doing so on July…
Se si farà la rivoluzione in Italia, si morrà di fame? [Will We Die of Hunger if There's a Revolution in Italy?]. New York: Casa ed. Libreria Rossa, [c. 1921].This work is taken from Umanità Nova, a Milanese leftist newspaper that was founded in 1920, and shut down by the fascists in 1922. "Libreria Rossa"…
L'I.W.W. nella teoria e nella pratica [The I.W.W. in Theory and Practice]. Chicago: Ed. a cura della Industrial Workers of the World, [c. 1922].The English language original of this 1920 work remains in print in a fifth edition. It has been translated into 8 languages. This translation from…
Così parlò Debs: dinanzi alla Corte di Cleveland, Ohio [Thus Spoke Debs: in front of the Court of Cleveland, Ohio]. Chicago: Federazione Socialista Italiana, 1918.This is an Italian-language translation from English by John La Duca of the address to the jury by Socialist Party perenial Presidential candidate…
Del delitto e delle pene nella società di domani [Of Crime and Punishment in the Society of Tomorrow]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, [1930].For a brief bio of Damiani, see entry for his La bottega. After the deaths of Galleani and Malatesta, the fascist regime considered Damiani, always on…
Carlo Marx e Bacunin in Spagna [Karl Marx and Bakunin in Spain]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1939.Mikhail Bakunin (or "Bacunin" in Italian) was one of the leading theorists of anarchism, a contemporary of Marx who split from Marx after the first…
Fecondità: commedia sociale in due atti [Fertility: Social Comedy in two acts]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1928.This is a social comedic drama published by the book publication arm of the anarchist newspaper L’Adunata dei Refrattari. This 1928 publication is the…
Efrem Bartoletti: Riflessioni poetiche [Efrem Bartoletti: Poetic Reflections]. Milano: Gastaldi Ed., 1955.Issued in the series of ""Poeti d'oggi"" (Poets of Today). This copy of Bartoletti’s collection of poems is inscribed in the year of publication "in…
Anarchismo e sindacalismo: conferenza…il 3 Aprile 1922 a Roma… [Anarchism and Syndicalism: a Lecture given on 3 April, 1922 in Rome]. Roma: Stabilimento Poligrafico Ed. Romano, [1922].
Scienza e fede [Science and Faith]. Philadelphia: Social Printing Co., 1908.Barbato (b. 1856, Piana dei Greci, d. 1923, Milan) was a Sicilian medical doctor, socialist and politician, one of the national leaders of the Fasci…
Caduti per noi, caduti per voi: raccolta di poesie di Angelica Balabanoff [Fallen for Us, Fallen for You: a Collection of Poetry of Angelica Balabanoff]. New York: Edizioni "La Fiaccola," [1935].Unlike Tears, this collection of Balabanoff's poetry contains only poetry in Italian. It is dedicated "To the victims of Fascism, to the Martyrs for…
Tears. New York: E. Laub Publishing Co., 1943.Angelica Balabanoff (b. Ukraine 1878, d. Rome 1965) was a Russian Jewish–Italian communist and social democratic activist. She served as secretary of…