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- Collection: Political subversives II: Anarchists (all types), socialists, syndicalists, communists, anti-clericals
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…
Primo Maggio 1886 e Primo Maggio 1956: segue la ristampa di due scritti di grande interesse: I Martiri di Chicago nella rievocazione storica di Luigi Galleani e di Pietro Gori [May Day 1886 and May Day 1956: followed by the reprinting of an American work of great interest, The Martyrs of Chicago in the Historical Retelling of Luigi Galleani and of Pietro Gori]. Torino: Tip. M. Appiano, 1956.May Day was perhaps the single most important day of the anarchist and socialist year in the U.S. and elsewhere, celebrating the worker and the…
Qualcuno guastò la festa [Someone ruined the holiday]. Brockton, MA: [n.p.], 1924.Who was Virginio Della Vesa? explain.
Razzismo e Anarchismo
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…
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…
Scritti politici e letterarii: raccolti ed ordinati da Giovanni Di Gregorio [Political and Literary Writings: gathered and ordered by Giovanni di Gregorio]. New York: Venanzi Memorial Committee, 1921.This compilation of the writings of Flavio Venanzi (b. Roma, 1882; d. New York, 1920) has a book cover design by sculptor Onorio Ruotolo (q.v.), a…
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"…
Stato e comune [State and City]. Newark: Biblioteca de l'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1946.Gigi Damiani (b. Rome, 1876; d. Rome, 1953) was an author well published in the U.S., but there is no evidence that he ever set foot in this country.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
La grande rivoluzione in marcia [The great revolution on the march]. Newark: L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1940.Gold O’Bay was one of several pseudonyms used by Tintino Rasi (b. Genoa, 1893; d. Philadelphia, 1963). Rasi was an anarchist at an early age in Genoa,…
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…
Al caffè: conversazioni dal vero [At the Café: Honest Conversations]. Paterson: Libreria Sociologica, [n.d.]The Libreria Sociologica (Sociological Bookstore) in Paterson was both a publisher and a bookstore that stocked one of the richest and most varied…
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].
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…
Attorno ad una vita [About a Life]. Newark: Biblioteca de l'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1940.This is a short biography by Damiani of Niccolò Converti , an anarchist writer who published, among other works, Repubblica ed anarchia (Tunisia,…
Auto-difesa: pronunciata davanti al Tibunale di Mantova il 27 Ottobre 1909 [Self-Defense: pronounced before the Tribunal of Mantova, Oct. 27, 1909]. Bologna: Casa ed. "La Controcorrente", 1909.Title page stamped "Liberia Editrice Elvira Catello, 1946 First Avenue, New York City," on this work published in Bologna. Bolognese herself, Maria…
Bresci e Savoia: il regicidio: con l'aggiunta di un articolo del medesimo autore sulla misteriosa morte di Bresci [[Gaetano] Bresci and [the King of] Savoy: the Regicide, with the inclusion of an article by the same author on the mysterious death of Bresci]. Paterson: Ed. a cura della Libreria Sociologica, 1901.Gaetano Bresci was a weaver working in Paterson, NJ in the 1890s, part of the vibrant Italian anarchist community; he traveled to Italy planing to…
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…
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)…
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…