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Archive of material related to the Buffalo section of the Federazione Socialista Italiana in the years 1919-1922.
This is a collection of approximately 30 letters and other documents (such as agendas for meetings ("Ordine del giorno," photograph here), a membership card, and the like) of the Buffalo section of the Federazione Socialista Italiana in the years…
Memorie di vita di tempeste sociali [Recollections of a Life in Social Storms]. Chicago: A cura del Comitato "Vittorio Buttis," 1940.
The gorgeous cover art is by Fort Velona, one of the great graphic artists (see Sotto il segno del littorio, q.v.) and labor organizers active in leftist causes. The preface is by radical activist Angelica Balabanoff, q.v. The title page of this work…
Due conferenze: chi siamo e che cosa vogliamo: patria e religione [Two Lectures: Who We Are and What do We Want: Homeland and Religion]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1947.
Due conferenze includes two of D'Andrea's public speeches delivered during her lecture tours around the country - given in New York City on March 20, 1932 and (at Cooper Union) on January 6, 1929 - and published here in 1947 by the L’Adunata dei…
Tormento [Torment]. Paris: La Fraternelle, 1929.
In 1929 La Fraternelle in Paris published this, D'Andrea's first book of poetry, about her own personal anguish and social struggles, shortly after D'Andrea had entered the U.S. See Richiamo all'anarchia for her bio.Note, on the title page, that this…
L'I.W.W.: la sua storia, struttura e metodi [The I.W.W.: its History, Structure and Methods]. Brooklyn: Libreria Ed. Del Lavoratori Industriali del Mondo, [c. 1919].
Like Che cosa è l’I.W.W.?, this work and L'I.W.W. nella teoria e nella pratica of Justus Ebert three years later, in Chicago, q.v., are translations from English-language originals, intended to reach an Italian-language-only audience of workers who…
Max Stirner: un refrattario [Max Stirner: a Recalcitrant]. East Boston: Biblioteca del Gruppo Autonomo, 1914.
Roudine wrote this work in his native French, and published it in a bi-weekly periodical in 1911 directed by Henri Fabre in Paris. Max Stirner appeared in Italian first in issues of La Cronaca Sovversiva between January and April of that year,…
Come i falchi: bozzetto sociale in due atti [Like Hawks: dramatic scenes in two acts]. Philadelphia: Ed. a cura del Circolo d'Emancipazione Sociale, 1939.
The cover has a variant (from the title page) of the title of the work, namely, Come i falchi: Scene dramattiche in due atti.Postiglione (b. 1893 L'Aquila; d. 1924 L'Aquila) left Italy in 1910, embarking at Le Havre for New York, whence he went to…
Errico Malatesta: Bibliografia. Napoli: Edizioni RI, 1951.
Ugo Fedeli was one of Frank Brand's (Errico Arrigoni) comrades in a factory in Milan whom Arrigoni identifies as an anarchist-communist. He was a frequent contributor to Arrigoni's anarchist periodical, Eresia.Fedeli also wrote a biography of…
Giuseppe Ciancabilla. Imola: Galeati, 1965.
This work recites at the outset Ciancabilla's conversion from socialism to anarchism due to his interview of Errico Malatesta in 1897 for an article Ciancabilla was writing for Avanti!. About half of the 78 pages is about his time in the U.S.Author…
Tolstoismo e anarchismo: rapporto presentato al Congresso Operaio Rivoluzionario Internazionale di Parigi dal Gruppo degli Studenti Socialisti Rivoluzionarii Internazionalisti di Parigi [Tolstoyism and anarchism: Report presented to the Revolutionary Working-Class International Congress of Paris of the Socialist Students Revolutionary International Group of Paris]. Barre: Biblioteca Circolo Studi Sociali, [1900?]
The anarchists of Barre were a colorful group. Frequently on the run from the postal or other federal authorities for his publishing and anarchist activities, and looking for a new base of operations after a short time in Paterson, Luigi Galleani and…
Argomenti libertari (pagine di propaganda antiparlamentare) [Libertarian Arguments (pages of anti-Parliamentarian propaganda)]. Milano: Libreria Editrice Sociale, 1911.
Stamp on front: "Libreria ed. ELVIRA CATELLO 1946 First Avenue, New York City|Manifattura di Calendari Artistici e Cartoline Illustrate| Catalogo a Richiesta [manufacturer of artistic calendars and illustrated postcards | catalogue on request]";…
Discorso radiofonico in Italiano sulla campagna elletorale: domenica, 23 ottobre [Radio Speech in Italian on the electoral campaign of Sunday, October 23]. The Bronx: Il Partito Comunista della Contea del Bronx, [1938].
Nunzio was the pseudonym of Mike Salerno, who edited L'Unita Operai, a Communist newspaper.It is curious to me that there was a Bronx County chapter of the Italian Communist Party in America, rather than just, say, a New York City chapter.Note that…
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 no other information about the translator in the book.Sébastien Faure was a French anarchist,…
Il prete attraverso la storia: conferenza di Riccardo Cordiferro [The Priest through History: lecture by Riccardo Cordiferro]. Barre: Edito a cura del Circolo di Studi Sociali, [1915].
Dedicated to Miss Alice Griffith and Elizabeth Ash; 27 photo illustrations printed in part "with the kind permission of Mr Lorenzo Sosso," and in part with permission of New San Francisco Magazine.See discussion of this work in the essay by Francesco…
Verso il nulla creatore [Toward the Creative Nothing]. West NY, NJ: Spec. Ed Virginio De Martin, 1939.
The cover and, such as it is, title page state “Special Edition Edited by Virginio De Martin | Publisher of "Supermen Literature," West New York, NJ 1939”; the cover also states at the top “superuomo: e: iconoclasta” (Superman and iconoclast).…
Ultra! - teoria dei geni e dei gagliardi [Ultra! theory of the Geniuses and the Strong]. New York: Casa ed. "L'Innovazione", [n.d.]
Vella, an anarchist and Spanish Civil War veteran, briefly visited the US in 1923, where he was a contributor to Il Martello, and witness for the defense in Carlo Tresca's trial for sending obscene material through the mails. Arrested at a rally in…
Sprazzi di luce: pennelate di propaganda anticlericale. New York: [n.p.], 1940.
While the publisher is not listed, as such, the recto of the final leaf displays an advertisement for Il Proletario, published by the Federazione Socialista Italiana in New York. So it is possible, i fnot likely, that the federation also published…
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) collection of Gori's poems; it includes poems written in St. Louis, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia,…
La verità su Luigi Antonini [The Truth about Luigi Antonini]. Brooklyn: Peter V. Cacchione Association, 1944.
Cacchione, a Consigliere Comunale [City Councilman] of New York, was the first who was a Communist Party USA member.Only two years before this 1944 pamphlet, Cacchione was supportive of Antonini: see DRESSMAKERS ITALIANI, volete che la nostra Locale…
Gli Italo-Americani e la guerra [Italian Americans and the War]. New York: Workers Library Publishers, Inc., 1940.
Published for National Election Campaign Committee Communist Party of the United States.Cacchione was the first member of the New York City Council who was openly a member of the Communist Party USA.
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.
This work is of course about Gaetano Bresci, the Italian American silkworker in Paterson who travelled to Italy to assassinate Italian King Umberto, and succeeded in doing so on July 29, 1900. Published in the Biblioteca of the famous Paterson…
Il mondo e le sue trasformazioni: dialoghi fra il nonno e la sua nepote [The World and its Transformations: dialogues between a grandpa and his granddaughter]. New York: Libreria Rossa, 1909.
This work has inconsistent bibliographic information: the date of 1909 is that of the publication of this work by the Libreria Rossa of Elivira Catello, q.v., who most libraries state as the publisher (U. Minn, U. Michigan, IISH (Amsterdam)). But…
Casa Savoia, Vol. II [House of Savoy, Vol. II]. East Boston: Ediz. de "L'Aurora", 1929.
A good example of the international nature of anarchism is reflected in the changing places of publishing of different volumes of the same work: Casa Savoia, Vol. I was published but in Buenos Aires in 1927, two years before the publication of this…
Resoconto del processo avanti la Corte d'Assise di Viterbo contro Schicchi Paolo [Report of the Trial before the Court of Assizes in Viterbo against Paolo Schicchi]. New York: Bolletini Speciali del tempo, 1925.
This work is a report of Paolo Schicchi's trial for attempted murder and other crimes allegedly committed by this anarchist. It includes a statement by the Sicilian-born but international revolutionary anarchist himself, as well as transcripts of…
Il sistema rappresentativo e l'ideale [The Representative System and the Ideal]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1945.
While published in Newark, this work was printed in France at the "Imprimerie Commerciale de la Tribune Républicaine, Saint-Étienne".For a fuller bio of Max Sartin, see the description in La guerra che viene.