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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, where he was under constant surveillance by the police for his political activities. In 1921, along…

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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, where he was under constant surveillance by the police for his political activities. In 1921, along…

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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, where he was under constant surveillance by the police for his political activities. In 1921, along…

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About Abbamonte, we know that he wrote plays and short stories, and he wrote often for the Siscas' La Follia (around 1940). In his Attori e filodrammatici della vecchia Colonia Italiana di New York, published in La Follia of March 13, 1940, he…

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This work, no author noted, is Opusolo No. 4 of the publisher's Biblioteca del Circolo di Sociali.This anarchist publication argues against the "very stupid" reasoning that socialists use against anarchists that they use in general: that there have…

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Becchetti was one of several women radicals who wrote plays to reflect their political views, including that of the emancipation of women. These plays were often at the center of leisure activities of radicals (replacing religiously themed events)…

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As noted in the entry for Nicotri's work on the history of revolution and revolt in Sicily, of Gaspare Nicotri, the New York Times obituary of October 14, 1955, notes that he was an "Italian lawyer, educator and sociologist" who died at age 81. While…

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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…

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Like the Italian original, this work was “published under the Auspices of the Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution.” The frontispiece shows President William Howard Taft. Map of the U.S., also in this edition, is laid down in rear cover.…

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Controcorrente, Vol. XVI, No. 2 - Sept./Oct. 1959 Controcorrente, Vol. XVI, No. 3 - Nov./Dec. 1959 Controcorrente, Vol. 18, No. 1 - July/August 1961Controcorrente, Vol. 18, No. 6 - May/June 1962Controcorrente, Vol. 19, No. 4 - January/February…

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The collection includes:Nazioni Unite, Anno I, N. 1 - 5 Marzo [March] 1942Nazioni Unite, Anno I, N. 2 - 12 Marzo [March] 1942Nazioni Unite, Anno I, No. 3 - 19 Marzo [March] 1942Nazioni Unite, Anno I, No. 4 - 26 Marzo [March] 1942Nazioni Unite, Anno…

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The collection includes:La Legione, Vol. I, No. 4 -December 2, 1942 La Legione, Vol. I, No. 5 - December 17, 1942La Legione, Vol. II, No. 1 - January 1, 1943La Legione, Vol. II, No. 2 - January 18, 1943La Legione, Vol. II, No. 3 - February 1, 1943La…

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Divagando was a stylish monthly magazine, nearly all of whose articles were in Italian, begun in 1942-1943. Each issue contained a mix of essays, poetry, short stories, and columns. The Collection currently includes issues from 1943 to…

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The Collection's edition is the Italian imprint, containing almost 40 of 110 numbers. But Durante lists a 1910 imprint by the American Premium Book Co. of Passaic, New Jersey, noting that it was issued in "about a hundred installments. The same…

One of the "scherzi poetici" of De Rosalia, this is a short work in verse in 8-line stanzas (A,A,A,A,A,A,B,B; C,C,C,C,C,C,C,C;B,B,B,B,B,B,A,A, etc.), featuring a dialogue between two people, styled as "Cuntrastu tra Titiddu e Rusulia", a "contrast"…

Similar to Lu novu Tuppi Tuppi, this work is in verse in Sicilian dialect. Unlike the other work, this is comprised of 15 separate short poems on various subjects, not a facially comic dialogue or monologue to an audience, as such but seemingly more…

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Forzato-Spezia, a formidable orator and thinker, used an Italian publisher for this account of her years in America, drawn from articles she had published in newspapers in America. She noted in the dedicatory note to "Eros, mio figlio [Eros, my son]"…

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Dedicated by author Novelli to his "consort" Iolanda. This copy is inscribed by Novelli to his friend, Theodore Gantz. The bookseller who sold me this work (or a prior owner) noted that Novelli is from Cincinnati, and lived from 1904-1990. As the…

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This is the only "annual" like this for this important school for working men and women - that is, there were night (as well as day) classes for those who had other daytime jobs. Connections to writers in the Collection are many: e.g., the…

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For a discussion of this magazine that ran for at least eleven years (1918 or 1919 - 1929), and that was utterly sui generis, neither radical, nor anti-fascist, nor fascist, nor bourgeois, see the general entry: Il Messaggero della Salute: rivista…

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For a discussion of this magazine that ran for at least eleven years (1918 or 1919 - 1929), and that was utterly sui generis, neither radical, nor anti-fascist, nor fascist, nor bourgeois, see the general entry:Il Messaggero della Salute: rivista…

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Aldo (Aldino) Felicani, a typographer and anarchist who started newspapers in Cleveland and elsewhere in the U.S. and who was intimately involved in trying to save Sacco and Vanzetti (he was the treasurer of the Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Committee…

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Two Italian patriotic songs, printed in blue ink on both sides of a single sheet, issued by an Italian-American publisher in New York City. Numbered Nos. 174 and No. 175, suggesting that Matacea was a fairly prolific publisher of such songsheets, but…

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These three chromolithographic prints or, given their location in the Princeton Poster Collection of the Smithsonian, posters, perhaps issued as a set, depict respectively the trial, execution, and burial of German militarism in the form of the…
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