<em><strong>Il Fornaretto di Venezia ovvero l'Inquisizione di Spagna. Tuesday, Wed. Thur & Fri. Oct. 12-14-15-16. </strong></em>[The Little Venetian Baker, or, The Spanish Inquisition] <strong><em>/ The Little Baker of Venice.</em></strong> <strong>[New York]: Giordano Press, [ca. 1923].</strong>
This bilingual advertising handbill for the American premier of "Il Fornaretto di Venezia" at the 5th Avenue Play House, ca. 1923, was printed on all four pages in English and Italian, and contains three illustrations. <br /><br />The handbill opens to a large still of the film's climactic scene, in which the main character ("il fornaretto") is sentenced to death by a panel of inquisitors; it is captioned in Italian and English with the headline: "100 per 100 Parlata in Italiano [100% spoken in Italian]" which is repeated in perhaps more idiomatic English, "All Talking 100% in Italian."<br /><br />The rear panel advertises an additional performance by Miss Emilia Da Prato, soprano.<br /><br />I have not run across this particular printer, Giordano Press, in any other Italian imprint in New York, nor found it in the 1905 Italian-American Directory, q.v., which is surprising given the need for competent Italian-language printers as well as publishers in 1920's New York.
Giordano Press
[ca. 1923]
23cm x 15cm
Italian
English
<strong><em>Athos Terzani, Accusato falsamente di omicidio dal "Generale" delle Khaki Shirts, Art J. Smith, presentera il suo caso dinanzi al popolo di Philadelphia ad un Mass Meeting Venerdi, 24 Novembre, alle ore 8 P.M.</em></strong> / <strong><em>Athos Terzani, Facing trial for murder on the false story of "General" Art J. Smith of the Khaki Shirts, will put his case before the people of Philadelphia at a Mass Meeting Friday, November 24, at 8 P.M.</em></strong> <strong>Philadelphia: Anti-Fascist United Front, [1933].</strong>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">This handbill - in Italian on the recto and in English on the verso - announces a mass meeting in support of Athos Terzani’s innocence. The English text states: “Athos Terzani, Facing trial for murder on the false story of ‘General’ Art J. Smith of the Khaki Shirts, will put his case before the people of Philadelphia at a Mass Meeting Friday, November 24, at 8 P.M.” Speakers included Giovannitti and Tresca, among the leading Italians. Norman Thomas, co-chairman of the Terzani Defense Committee with Roger Baldwin, organized by Tresca, was also a speaker; his work eventually led to Terzani’s exoneration at trial the following month.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">A cab driver, Terzani was a young anti-fascist follower of Tresca’s who was falsely accused of the murder of another anti-fascist, Antonio Fierro, at a rally of the fascist Khaki Shirts of America held in Astoria, Queens, on July 14, 1933. The rally was held a few months before a fascist “March on Washington” planned for Columbus Day, 1933, ostensibly to overthrow the government and establish a fascist dictatorship. Tresca had quickly organized a counter-rally, with the headline in that morning’s</span><i><span style="font-weight:400;"> La Stampa Libera </span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">sounding his exhortation: </span><i><span style="font-weight:400;">“mobilitazione antifascista! [anti-fascist mobilization!]”</span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The murder had been preceded by the clubbing to unconsciousness of Fort Velona, the noted illustrator whose work is in several items in the collection, for crying out “Morte a Mussolini!” upon hearing “Il Duce”’s name praised. Charged with murder in the second degree in a politically-charged indictment by the Queens district attorney, Terzani was released on $15,000 bail. The leader of the legal team was the brilliant Arthur Garfield Hays. At Terzani’s trial from December 11–13, several ex-Khaki Shirts identified a Khaki Shirts bodyguard as Fierro’s shooter. <br /><br />Terzani was found not guilty by a jury in 32 minutes; shortly afterward, Terzani and his fiancé were married at a victory celebration, with Norman Thomas as best man, and Tresca’s new companion, Margaret DeSilver, as matron of honor.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Note that the producer of this handbill was not Carlo Tresca's AFANA (Anti-Fascist Alliance of North America) but rather a different group, the Anti-Fascist United Front. Try as he might, Tresca was unsuccessful in keeping the splintered Italian left together for the anti-fascist movement. So a smaller group - this Anti-Fascist United Front - was formed. Yet Tresca signed this handbill, as representative of the Italian Defense Committee.<br /><br />The collection contains a related work, <em>Ad Antonio Fierro: spento da piombo fascista</em> [For Antonio Fierro: killed by a fascist bullet]. New York: [n.p.], [1933], a poem composed by Italian-American labor poet, Antonino Crivello; and several book covers and other art work of Fort Velona, q.v.</span></p>
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Anti-Fascist United Front
[1933]
25.5cm x 17.5cm
<strong><em>A Basso con Mussolini e il Fascismo!</em> New York: Communist Party [CPUSA], [n.d.].</strong>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">This particular flyer or handbill was used to incite Italians workers to show their opposition to the "guerra imperialista," the Italian imperialist misadventure in Ethiopia, calling them to rallies in August 1935, in both Elmira and Ithaca in upstate New York, and instead to defend the Italian workers still living in Italy, suffering under the "turtura" ["tortura" or torture] of fascism. The handbill notes that mothers and families of young men are wondering why "their sons, fathers and brothers have been sent to fight a war for Italian bosses and bankers."<br /><br /></span>Printed on the bottom of the handbill is "Communist Party" with a hammer and sickle; though undated, there is handwritten at the bottom (perhaps by a dealer) "Elmira NY CP 1935." The flyer announces two public meetings for International Anti-War Day (August 1), one held at Eldridge Park in Elmira, NY; the other at Stuart Park in Ithaca. <br /><br />It features a cartoon of Mussolini on the shoulders of a man representing the "Lavoratori Italiani" (Italian Workers) with his sword pointed in the direction of "Itiopia." This flyer is not located in OCLC.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:400;">That this mostly typewritten, rather than printed, handbill was prepared locally is suggested by the mistake (“A Basso” should be “Abasso”) that one was less likely to see in a nationally prepared flyer like others in the collection. <br /></span></p>
CPUSA
[n.d.]
28cm x 21.5cm; 1 p.
<em><strong>Un Appello Agli Italiani di Questa Sezione</strong></em> <strong><em>/ An Appeal to the People of this Community</em></strong>.<strong> New York, New York: AFSCME (American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees), 1936.</strong>
This flyer was printed recto only on newsprint with two columns of text, one in Italian the other in English. It gives an announcement for a community meeting to be held at Public School 45 in the Bronx, Friday, December 11, 1936. <br /><br />Sponsored by the American Federation for State, County, and Municipal Employees, the meeting was to bring the attention of taxpayers and the unemployed to a Civil Service Examination bringing the loss of jobs to thousands of Home Relief Employees. <br /><br />In December 1931, when the effects of the Great Depression required an emergency response, the Home Relief Bureau was created under the Governorship of Franklin D. Roosevelt, to bring assistance to the most needy residents of New York. Home Relief was a precursor to many New Deal programs that Roosevelt enacted during his presidency.
AFSCME
1936
30 x 21cm; 1 p.
<span><strong><em>Il Martello</em> </strong>[The Hammer]<strong>, Anno III & IV. New York: <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 19 issues: Incomplete Anno III, IV- 1918, 1919: <br /><br /></span></strong></span>
See the general entry for <em>Il Martello</em> for the years 1918-1943 (repeated in a few descriptions of individual issues) for the history of the founding and running by Carlo Tresca of this, perhaps the most famous and almost surely the most long-lived of the radical newspapers in Italian in the Italian American community.<br /><br />This is a bound volume - the first of two - of 20 issues of the newspaper-magazine <em>Il Martello</em>, spanning the period from 1918-1919. This was bound by hand by a subscriber and great admirer of Tresca's - Augusto Lentricchia, and was a gift to me of Frank Lentricchia, novelist and Katherine Everett Gilbert Professor of Literature and Theater Studies at Duke University.<br /><br />It includes important works like a novella of Arturo Giovannitti, "Come era nel principio ..." and frequent contributions from Vincenzo Vacirca, who himself founded several important magazines that are in the collection, <em>La Strada</em> and <em>Il Solco</em>, and other important radical writers, such as Ludovico Caminita. A poem by Efrem Bartoletti celebrating the appearance of <em>Il Martello</em> in December of 1917 graces the verso of the cover page of the January 1, 1918 issue (erroneously dated January 1, <em>1917</em>).<br /><p>That a reader of a review like <em>Il Martello</em> would lovingly gather issues into a homemade binding, beginning only a year after the magazine's founding in 1917, is a measure of the affection that Tresca’s followers felt for him and everything he did. An immigrant from Morollo, south of Rome, Augusto Lentricchia settled in Utica in the first decade of the 20th century, where he worked for the New York Central Railroad, from which he was fired several times for trying to organize other railroad workers to radical causes. Lentricchia was also a poet who wrote about radical issues; one of his poems was published in <em>Il Martello</em>. His bound diaries containing his poetry were donated by Professor Lentricchia to the Italian American Collection at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.<br /><br />List of issues in this volume:<br /><br /><span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">1 (1 Gennaio [January] 1917 [sic]), <br />2 (16 Gennaio), <br />3 (16 Febbraio [February]), <br />4 (1 Marzo [March], <br />5 (16 Marzo), <br />6 (1 Aprile [April], <br />7 (15 Aprile), <br />8 (16 Maggio [May]), <br />9 (1 Giugno [June]), <br />10 (16 Giugno),<br />11 (1 Luglio [July]),<br />13 (1 Agosto [August]), <br />14 (16 Agosto), <br />15 (1 Settembre [September], <br />16 (1 Ottobre [October]), <br />17 (16 Ottobre), <br />19 (16 Novembre [November]), - <br /><br />incomplete Anno IV - 1919, Nos.<br />1 (1 Gennaio), <br />2 (16 Gennaio), <br />3 (1 Febbraio). </span></p>
Carlo Tresca
Casa Ed. "Il Martello"
16 Aprile [April] 1918 - ???
<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/527"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 9 - 19 Marzo [March] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/528"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 24 - 19 Luglio [July] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/529"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 42 - 12 Dicembre [December] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/530"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 8 - 4 Marzo [March] 1922</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/531"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 14 - 27 Aprile [April] 1922</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/532"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 1 - 14 Gennaio [January] 1943</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/533"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 2 - 28 Febbraio [February] 1943</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 3 - 14 Marzo [March] 1943</a><br /><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/526"><em>Il Martello </em>[main entry]</a>
Italian
<span><span><strong><em>Il Martello</em> </strong>[The Hammer]<strong>, <br />Anno II, IV - 1918-1919 (incomple)<br /><br /></strong></span></span><span><strong>New York: <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 1 Gennaio [January] 1918 - 16 Febbraio [February] 1919.<br /></span></strong></span>
<p>See the general entry for <em>Il Martello</em> for the years 1918-1943 (repeated in a few descriptions of individual issues) for the history of the founding and running by Carlo Tresca of this, perhaps the most famous and almost surely the most long-lived of the radical newspapers in Italian in the Italian American community.<br /><br />Bound volume - the second of two - of 23 issues of the newspaper-magazine <em>Il Martello</em>, spanning the period from January 1918 (Volume 3, No. 1) to February 1919 (Volume 4, No. 3), with no post-February issues in the second, 1919 volume. This volume is largely duplicative -but in unfailing chronological order, unlike the other volume - of the first volume bound by Augusto Lentricchia and was a gift to me of Frank Lentricchia, novelist and Katherine Everett Gilbert Professor of Literature and Theater Studies at Duke University.<br /><br /></p>
<p>That a reader of a review like <em>Il Martello</em> would lovingly gather issues into a homemade binding, beginning only a year after the founding of <em>Il Martello</em> in 1917, is a measure of the affection that Tresca’s followers felt for him and everything he did. An immigrant from Morollo, south of Rome, Augusto Lentricchia settled in Utica in the first decade of the 20th century, where he worked for the New York Central Railroad, from which he was fired several times for trying to organize other railroad workers to radical causes. Lentricchia was also a poet who wrote about radical issues; one of his poems was published in <em>Il Martello</em>. His bound diaries containing his poetry were donated by Professor Frank Lentricchia to the Italian American Collection at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.<br /><br />This volume includes:<br /><br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 1 - 1 Gennaio [January] 1917 [i.e. 1918]<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 2 - 16 Gennaio [January] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 3 - 16 Febbraio [February] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 4 - 1 Marzo [March] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 5 - 16 Marzo [March] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 6 - 1 Aprile [April] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, Numero Special<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 8 - 16 Maggio [May] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 9 - 1 Giugno [June] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 10 - 16 Giugno [June] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 11 - 1 Luglio [July] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 12 - 16 Luglio [July] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 13 - 1 Agosto [August] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 14 - 16 Agosto [August] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 15 - 1 Settembre [September] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 16 - 1 Ottobre [October] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 17 - 16 Ottobre [October] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 18 - 1 Novembre [November] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III, No. 19 - 16 Novembre [November] 1918<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno IV, No. 1 - 1 Gennaio [January] 1919<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno IV, No. 2 - 16 Gennaio [January] 1919<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno IV, No. 3 - 1 Febbraio [February] 1919<br /><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno IV, Supplemento al No. 3 - 16 Febbraio [February] 1919</p>
Carlo Tresca
Casa Ed. "Il Martello"
1 Gennaio [January] 1918 - 16 Febbraio [February] 1919
<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/527"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 9 - 19 Marzo [March] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/528"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 24 - 19 Luglio [July] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/529"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 42 - 12 Dicembre [December] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/530"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 8 - 4 Marzo [March] 1922</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/531"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 14 - 27 Aprile [April] 1922</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/532"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 1 - 14 Gennaio [January] 1943</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/533"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 2 - 28 Febbraio [February] 1943</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 3 - 14 Marzo [March] 1943</a><br /><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/526"><em>Il Martello </em>[main entry]</a>
Italian
<span><strong><em>Il Martello</em> </strong>[The Hammer]<strong>, Vol 28, No. 3. New York: <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 14 Marzo [March] 1943.<br /></span></strong></span>
See the general entry for <em>Il Martello</em> for the years 1918-1943 for the history of the founding and running by Carlo Tresca of this, perhaps the most famous and almost surely the most long-lived of the radical newspapers in Italian in the Italian American community.
Carlo Tresca
Casa Ed. "Il Martello"
14 Marzo [March] 1943
<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/535"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3, No. 1 - Anno 4, No 3 - <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">1 Gennaio [January] 1918 - 16 Febbraio [February] 1919</span></a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/536"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3-4, 1918-1919</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/527"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 9 - 19 Marzo [March] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/528"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 24 - 19 Luglio [July] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/529"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 42 - 12 Dicembre [December] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/530"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 8 - 4 Marzo [March] 1922</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/531"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 14 - 27 Aprile [April] 1922</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/532"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 1 - 14 Gennaio [January] 1943</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/533"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 2 - 28 Febbraio [February] 1943</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"></a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/526"><em>Il Martello </em>[main entry]</a>
Italian
<span><strong><em>Il Martello</em> </strong>[The Hammer]<strong>, Vol 28, No. 2. New York: <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 28 Febbraio [February] 1943.<br /></span></strong></span>
See the general entry for <em>Il Martello</em> for the years 1918-1943 for the history of the founding and running by Carlo Tresca of this, perhaps the most famous and almost surely the most long-lived of the radical newspapers in Italian in the Italian American community.
Carlo Tresca
Casa Ed. "Il Martello"
28 Febbraio [February] 1943
<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/535"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3, No. 1 - Anno 4, No 3 - <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">1 Gennaio [January] 1918 - 16 Febbraio [February] 1919</span></a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/536"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3, No. 7 - ??? - <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">16 Aprile [April] 1918 - ???</span></a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/527"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 9 - 19 Marzo [March] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/528"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 24 - 19 Luglio [July] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/529"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 42 - 12 Dicembre [December] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/530"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 8 - 4 Marzo [March] 1922</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/531"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 14 - 27 Aprile [April] 1922</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/532"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 1 - 14 Gennaio [January] 1943</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/533"></a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 3 - 14 Marzo [March] 1943</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/526"><em>Il Martello </em>[main entry]</a>
Italian
<span><strong><em>Il Martello</em> </strong>[The Hammer]<strong>, Vol 28, No. 1. New York: <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 14 Gennaio [January] 1943.<br /></span></strong></span>
See the general entry for <em>Il Martello</em> for the years 1918-1943 for the history of the founding and running by Carlo Tresca of this, perhaps the most famous and almost surely the most long-lived of the radical newspapers in Italian in the Italian American community.
Carlo Tresca
Casa Ed. "Il Martello"
14 Gennaio [January] 1943
<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/535"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3, No. 1 - Anno 4, No 3 - <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">1 Gennaio [January] 1918 - 16 Febbraio [February] 1919</span></a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/536"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3, No. 7 - ??? - <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">16 Aprile [April] 1918 - ???</span></a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/527"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 9 - 19 Marzo [March] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/528"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 24 - 19 Luglio [July] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/529"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 42 - 12 Dicembre [December] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/530"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 8 - 4 Marzo [March] 1922</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/531"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 14 - 27 Aprile [April] 1922</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/533"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 2 - 28 Febbraio [February] 1943</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 3 - 14 Marzo [March] 1943</a><br /><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/526"><em>Il Martello </em>[main entry</a>
Italian
<span><strong><em>Il Martello</em> </strong>[The Hammer]<strong>, Vol. VIII, No. 14. New York: <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 27 Aprile [April] 1922.<br /></span></strong></span>
See the general entry for <em>Il Martello</em> for the years 1918-1943 for the history of the founding and running by Carlo Tresca of this, perhaps the most famous and almost surely the most long-lived of the radical newspapers in Italian in the Italian American community.
Carlo Tresca
Casa Ed. "Il Martello"
27 Aprile [April] 1922
<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/535"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3, No. 1 - Anno 4, No 3 - <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">1 Gennaio [January] 1918 - 16 Febbraio [February] 1919</span></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/536"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3, No. 7 - ??? - <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">16 Aprile [April] 1918 - ???</span></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/527"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 9 - 19 Marzo [March] 1921</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/528"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 24 - 19 Luglio [July] 1921</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/529"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 42 - 12 Dicembre [December] 1921</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/530"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 8 - 4 Marzo [March] 1922</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/532"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 1 - 14 Gennaio [January] 1943</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/533"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 2 - 28 Febbraio [February] 1943</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 3 - 14 Marzo [March] 1943</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"></a><br /><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/526"><em>Il Martello </em>[main entry]</a>
Italian
<span><strong><em>Il Martello</em> </strong>[The Hammer]<strong>, Vol. VIII, No. 8. New York: <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 4 Marzo [March] 1922.</span></strong></span>
Carlo Tresca was the editor-in-chief (or equivalent) at several radical newspapers over his career, but the one that he founded and ran for decades — <em>Il Martello</em> — is the one most closely identified with him, and he with it. <br /><br />Tresca founded <em>Il Martello</em> in 1917, and he directed it (with some interruptions due to poor finances) until his assassination in 1943. <br /><br />As is evident from the broad range of writing genres it encompassed, <em>Il Martello</em> was not a traditional Italian anarchist newspaper or a “movement” publication in the specific way that <em>La Questione Sociale</em> (edited by Ludovico Caminita and by Galleani briefly) was for anarcho-syndicalists, or the <em>Cronaca Sovversiva</em> and <em>L’Adunata dei Refrattari</em> were for anti-organizationist anarchist communists like Galleani and his followers. <br /><br />Rather, <em>Il Martello</em> was too eclectic and unorthodox, like Tresca himself, to be classified according to conventional typology —“You can’t label him. You can’t classify him,” said Max Eastman in a famous <em>The New Yorker</em> profile. <br /><br />The personal affection that Tresca’s friends and colleagues had for him infuriated the more cerebral Galleani and his ultraloyal founders, who unfairly attacked Tresca personally when they were unable to do so doctrinally.
Carlo Tresca
Casa Ed. "Il Martello"
4 Marzo [March] 1922
<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/535"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3, No. 1 - Anno 4, No 3 - <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">1 Gennaio [January] 1918 - 16 Febbraio [February] 1919</span></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/536"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3-4, 1918-1919</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/527"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 9 - 19 Marzo [March] 1921</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/528"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 24 - 19 Luglio [July] 1921</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/529"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 42 - 12 Dicembre [December] 1921</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/531"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 14 - 27 Aprile [April] 1922</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/532"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 1 - 14 Gennaio [January] 1943</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/533"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 2 - 28 Febbraio [February] 1943</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 3 - 14 Marzo [March] 1943</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"></a><br /><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/526"><em>Il Martello </em>[main entry]</a>
Italian
<span><strong><em>Il Martello</em> </strong>[The Hammer]<strong>, Vol. VII, No. 42. New York: <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 12 Dicembre [December] 1921.<br /></span></strong></span>
Carlo Tresca was the editor-in-chief (or equivalent) at several radical newspapers over his career, but the one that he founded and ran for decades — <em>Il Martello</em> — is the one most closely identified with him, and he with it. <br /><br />Tresca founded <em>Il Martello</em> in 1917, and he directed it (with some interruptions due to poor finances) until his assassination in 1943. <br /><br />As is evident from the broad range of writing genres it encompassed, <em>Il Martello</em> was not a traditional Italian anarchist newspaper or a “movement” publication in the specific way that <em>La Questione Sociale</em> (edited by Ludovico Caminita and by Galleani briefly) was for anarcho-syndicalists, or the <em>Cronaca Sovversiva</em> and <em>L’Adunata dei Refrattari</em> were for anti-organizationist anarchist communists like Galleani and his followers. <br /><br />Rather, <em>Il Martello</em> was too eclectic and unorthodox, like Tresca himself, to be classified according to conventional typology —“You can’t label him. You can’t classify him,” said Max Eastman in a famous <em>The New Yorker</em> profile. <br /><br />The personal affection that Tresca’s friends and colleagues had for him infuriated the more cerebral Galleani and his ultraloyal founders, who unfairly attacked Tresca personally when they were unable to do so doctrinally.
Carlo Tresca
Casa Ed. "Il Martello"
12 Dicembre [December] 1921
<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/535"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3, No. 1 - Anno 4, No 3 - <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">1 Gennaio [January] 1918 - 16 Febbraio [February] 1919</span></a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/536"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3-4, 1918-1919</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/527"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 9 - 19 Marzo [March] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/528"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 24 - 19 Luglio [July] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/530"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 8 - 4 Marzo [March] 1922</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/531"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 14 - 27 Aprile [April] 1922</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/532"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 1 - 14 Gennaio [January] 1943</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/533"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 2 - 28 Febbraio [February] 1943</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 3 - 14 Marzo [March] 1943</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/526"><em>Il Martello </em>[main entry]</a>
Italian
<span><strong><em>Il Martello</em> </strong>[The Hammer]<strong>, Vol. VII, No. 24. New York: <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 19 Luglio [July] 1921.</span></strong></span>
Carlo Tresca was the editor-in-chief (or equivalent) at several radical newspapers over his career, but the one that he founded and ran for decades — <em>Il Martello</em> — is the one most closely identified with him, and he with it. <br /><br />Tresca founded <em>Il Martello</em> in 1917, and he directed it (with some interruptions due to poor finances) until his assassination in 1943. <br /><br />As is evident from the broad range of writing genres it encompassed, <em>Il Martello</em> was not a traditional Italian anarchist newspaper or a “movement” publication in the specific way that <em>La Questione Sociale</em> (edited by Ludovico Caminita and by Galleani briefly) was for anarcho-syndicalists, or the <em>Cronaca Sovversiva</em> and <em>L’Adunata dei Refrattari</em> were for anti-organizationist anarchist communists like Galleani and his followers. <br /><br />Rather, <em>Il Martello</em> was too eclectic and unorthodox, like Tresca himself, to be classified according to conventional typology —“You can’t label him. You can’t classify him,” said Max Eastman in a famous <em>The New Yorker</em> profile. <br /><br />The personal affection that Tresca’s friends and colleagues had for him infuriated the more cerebral Galleani and his ultraloyal founders, who unfairly attacked Tresca personally when they were unable to do so doctrinally.
Carlo Tresca
Casa Ed. "Il Martello"
19 Luglio [July] 1921
<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/535"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3, No. 1 - Anno 4, No 3 - <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">1 Gennaio [January] 1918 - 16 Febbraio [February] 1919</span></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/536"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3-4, 1918-1919<br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/527"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 9 - 19 Marzo [March] 1921</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/529"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 42 - 12 Dicembre [December] 1921</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/530"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 8 - 4 Marzo [March] 1922</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/531"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 14 - 27 Aprile [April] 1922</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/532"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 1 - 14 Gennaio [January] 1943</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/533"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 2 - 28 Febbraio [February] 1943</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 3 - 14 Marzo [March] 1943</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"></a><br /><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/526"><em>Il Martello </em>[main entry]</a>
Italian
<span><strong><em>Il Martello</em> </strong>[The Hammer]<strong>, Vol. VII, No. 9. New York: <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 19 Marzo [March] 1921.</span></strong></span>
Carlo Tresca was the editor-in-chief (or equivalent) at several radical newspapers over his career, but the one that he founded and ran for decades — <em>Il Martello</em> — is the one most closely identified with him, and he with it. <br /><br />Tresca founded <em>Il Martello</em> in 1917, and he directed it (with some interruptions due to poor finances) until his assassination in 1943. <br /><br />As is evident from the broad range of writing genres it encompassed, <em>Il Martello</em> was not a traditional Italian anarchist newspaper or a “movement” publication in the specific way that <em>La Questione Sociale</em> (edited by Galleani and Caminita) was for anarcho-syndicalists. <br /><br />Rather, <em>Il Martello</em> was too eclectic and unorthodox, like Tresca himself, to be classified according to conventional typology —“You can’t label him. You can’t classify him,” said Max Eastman in a famous profile in <em>The New Yorker</em>. <br /><br />The personal affection that Tresca’s friends and colleagues had for him infuriated the more cerebral Galleani and his ultraloyal founders, who unfairly attacked Tresca personally when they were unable to do so doctrinally.
Carlo Tresca
Casa Ed. "Il Martello"
19 Marzo [March] 1921
<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/535"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3, No. 1 - Anno 4, No 3 - <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">1 Gennaio [January] 1918 - 16 Febbraio [February] 1919</span></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/536"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno 3-4, 1918-1919</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/528"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 24 - 19 Luglio [July] 1921</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/529"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 7, No. 42 - 12 Dicembre [December] 1921</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/530"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 8 - 4 Marzo [March] 1922</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/531"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 14 - 27 Aprile [April] 1922</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/532"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 1 - 14 Gennaio [January] 1943</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/533"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 2 - 28 Febbraio [February] 1943</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><br /></a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 3 - 14 Marzo [March] 1943</a><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"></a><br /><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/526"><em>Il Martello </em>[main entry]</a>
Italian
<span><strong><em>Il Martello</em> </strong>[The Hammer]<strong>. New York: <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 1918-1943.</span></strong><br /></span>
Carlo Tresca was the editor-in-chief (or equivalent) at several radical newspapers over his career, but the one that he founded and ran for decades — <em>Il Martello</em> — is the one most closely identified with him, and he with it. <br /><br />Tresca founded <em>Il Martello</em> in 1916, and he directed it (with some interruptions due to poor finances) until his assassination in 1943; the paper continued for a few more years, until 1946. <br /><br />As is evident from the broad range of writing genres it encompassed, <em>Il Martello</em> was not a traditional Italian anarchist newspaper or a “movement” publication in the specific way that <em>La Questione Sociale</em> (edited by Galleani and Caminita) was for anarcho-syndicalists. <br /><br />Rather, <em>Il Martello</em> was too eclectic and unorthodox, like Tresca himself, to be classified according to conventional typology —“You can’t label him. You can’t classify him,” said Max Eastman in a famous profile in <em>The New Yorker</em>.<br /><br /><span>In 1923, </span><i>Il Martello</i><span> reached international distribution, being mailed throughout Italy. Tresca mailed his paper to subscribers in Italy without charging any money, according to Nunzio Pernicone in <em>Carlo Tresca: Portrait of a Rebel</em>. The Italian government responded by banning the importation of </span><i>Il Martello. </i>This was probably a "first" for an Italian-language American periodical's foray into the Italian market. (It's the converse of the banning of export of L'Asino from Rome to the United States that led to the "publication" in New York of the same magazine, with the same cartoons and stories but with advertisements from New York Italian businesses, not Roman ones.)<br /><br />The personal affection that Tresca’s friends and colleagues had for him infuriated the more cerebral Galleani and his ultraloyal founders, who unfairly attacked Tresca personally when they were unable to do so doctrinally. Still, there was plenty in Tresca's life - e.g., his affair with a 16-year old tutoring him in English - that merited personal disapproval and even condemnation with Galleanisti looking very hard.<br /><br />The collection includes:<br /><br /><div id="dublin-core-title" class="element">
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<p><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/535"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III - IV, 1918-1919 - 20 issues</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/536"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno III - IV, 1918-1919 </a>- 23 issues<br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/527"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno (Vol.) 7, No. 9 - 19 Marzo [March] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/528"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno (Vol.) 7, No. 24 - 19 Luglio [July] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/529"><em>Il Martello</em>, Anno (Vol. 7), No. 42 - 12 Dicembre [December] 1921</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/530"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 8 - 4 Marzo [March] 1922</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/531"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 8, No. 14 - 27 Aprile [April] 1922</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/532"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 1 - 14 Gennaio [January] 1943</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/533"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 2 - 28 Febbraio [February] 1943</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/534"><em>Il Martello</em>, Vol. 28, No. 3 - 14 Marzo [March] 1943</a></p>
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Carlo Tresca
Casa Ed. "Il Martello"
Italian
<em><strong>Il Proletario </strong></em>[The Worker], <strong>Anno 28</strong><em>. </em><strong>Chicago, Brooklyn: Industrial Workers of the World, 1924.</strong>
The full run of issues of <em>Il Proletario</em> from 1924, companion volume to the full run of 1923 issues also in the collection.<br /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">This most important I.W.W. newspaper (which began in 1896 and lasted until 1946) was edited at various times by an all-star list of the Italian American left, from Carlo Tresca and Mario De Ciampis to Arturo Giovannitti, Angelo Faggi, Giuseppe Cannata and Edmondo Rossoni. <br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">The motto of the paper, evident on this page, is “Educazione – organizzazione – emancipazione. Conquistando la fabbrica, conquisteremo il mondo [Education – organization – emancipation. Subduing the factory, we will conquer the world]. The “Hour for Action” lead story is by Mario De Ciampis. <br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight:400;">Besides his role as a long-time editor of</span><i><span style="font-weight:400;"> Il Proletario</span></i><span style="font-weight:400;">, De Ciampis was a </span><span style="font-weight:400;">leading historian of the Federazione Socialista Italiana, and a close associate of Carlo Tresca. Ironically, unlike 1923, q.v., there was no May </span><span style="font-weight:400;">Day issue in 1924, because the newspaper was in the middle of moving its base of operations from Chicago to Brooklyn, where it remained. See Durante, <em>Italoamericana</em>, for a good discussion of the trajectory of this important newspaper, going back to its early years early in the 20th century.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"></span></p>
Mario De Ciampis
Industrial Workers of the World
1924
<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/524"><em>Il Proletario</em>, Anno 27 - 1923</a><br /><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/468"><em>Il Proletario</em> [main entry]</a>
Italian
<em><strong>Il Proletario </strong></em>[The Worker], <strong>Anno 27</strong><em>. </em><strong>Chicago: Industrial Workers of the World, 1923.<br /></strong>
The full run of issues of <em>Il Proletario </em>from 1923, the companion volume of the 1924 full run in the collection.<br /><br />The front page of the May Day 1923 issue of <em>Il Proletario</em> feautres a striking cover illustration, captioned “The heads of the monstrous snakes finally fall, shattered,” that shows a muscular, bare-breasted woman about to strike, with an axe, a many-headed snake that threatens the children standing behind her, an image that reflects the symbolic importance of May Day among italian radicals in the New World with the rare use of red (or of any color) ink.<br /><p>The “hour for Action” lead story is by Mario De Ciampis. relatively early on, May Day turned into a more joyous celebration as well, with food, drink and dancing, in addition to poetry readings and dramatic performances, such as Pietro Gori’s <em>Primo Maggio </em>(May Day). The verso of this front page contains a poem by Virgilia D’Andrea entitled “Primo Maggio.” <br /><br />De Ciampis was a long-time editor of <em>Il Proletario</em>, leading historian of the Federazione Socialista italiana, and a close associate of Carlo Tresca. Ironically, there was no May Day issue the following year, 1924, see the companion volume, because the newspaper was in the middle of moving its base of operations from Chicago to brooklyn, where it remained.</p>
<p>May Day had its origins as early as 1886, when unions and anarchist groups in Chicago led a series of demonstrations and protests demanding an eight-hour day, resulting in the haymarket massacre on May 4 of that year, in which several demonstrators and policemen were killed by a bomb thrown at the police. Five anarchists were subsequently executed for their participation, though no evidence linked them to the bombing. France declared May 1 as the international holiday of workers of the world in 1890. <br /><br />Traditional May Day celebrations remained alive among immigrants and the working class even after President Grover Cleveland in 1887 supported the Knights of labor’s recommendation that workers’ day be celebrated in September as labor Day. early May Day celebrations included strikes, mass protests and demonstrations, often ending in violence and police confrontations.<br /><br />For a good discussion of the history and significance of May Day among Italian immigrants of the left, see Marcella Bencivenni, <em>Italian Immigrant Radical Culture: the Idealism of the Sovversivi in the United States, 1890-1940</em> (New York: NYU Press, 2011).</p>
Mario De Ciampis
Industrial Workers of the World
1923
<a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/525"><em>Il Proletario</em>, Anno 28 - 1924</a><br /><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/468"><em>Il Proletario</em> [main entry]</a>
Italian
<em><strong>Il Messaggero della Salute: rivista mensile d'igiene, di terapia fisio-psichica e di cultura eclettica </strong></em>[<span>The Messenger of Health: a monthly review of hygiene, of physico-psychiatric therapy, and of eclectic culture], <strong>Anno 11, </strong><strong></strong><strong>No. 111.</strong> <strong>Chicago: Italian Labor Publishing Co., Dicembre [December] 1929.<br /></strong></span>
For a discussion of this magazine that ran for at least eleven years (1918 or 1919 - 1929), and that was utterly <em>sui generis</em>, not filling within the radical left, nor anti-fascist, nor fascist, nor bourgeois, see the general entry: <br /><br /><em>Il Messaggero della Salute: rivista mensile d'igiene, di terapia fisio-psichica e di cultura eclettica</em> [The Messenger of Health: a monthly review of hygiene, of physico-psychiatric therapy, and of eclectic culture]. Chicago: Italian Labor Publishing Co., Gennaio [January] 1924 (Vol. 6) - Dicembre [December] 1929 (Anno XI).
T. Lucidi
Italian Labor Publishing Co.
Dicembre [December] 1929
<span><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/481"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, <strong></strong>No. 55 - Gennaio [January] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/482"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 6, No. 57 - Marzo [March] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/483"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 58 - Aprile [April] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/484"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 59 - Maggio [May] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/485"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 60 - Giugno [June] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/486"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 61 - Luglio [July] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/487"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 6, No. 62 - Agosto [August] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/488"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 63 - Settembre [September] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/489"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 64 - Ottobre [October] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/490"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 65 - Novembre [November] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/491"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 66 - Dicembre [December] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/492"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 67 - Gennaio-Febbraio [January-February] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/493"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 68 - Marzo [March] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/494"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7<em>, </em>No. 69 - Aprile [April] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/495"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 70 - Maggio [May] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/496"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 71 - Giugno [June] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/497"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 72 - Luglio [July] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/498"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 74 - Settembre [September] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/499"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 75 - Ottobre [October] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/500"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 7, No. 76 - Novembre-Dicembre [November-December] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/501"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 77 - Gennaio [January] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/502"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 78 - Febbraio [February] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/503"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 79 - Marzo [March] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/504"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 80 - Aprile [April] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/505"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 81 - Maggio [May] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/506"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 8, No. 82 - Giugno [June] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/507"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 84 - Agosto [August] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/508"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 85 - Settembre [September] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/554"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 8, No. 86 - Ottobre [October] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/509"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 87 - Novembre-Dicembre [November-December] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/555"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute</em>, Anno 9, No. 88 - Gennaio [January] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/510"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 90 - Marzo [March] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/511"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 91 - Aprile [April] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/512"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 92 - Maggio [May] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/513"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 93 - Giugno [June] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/514"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 94 - Luglio [July] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/515"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 95 - Agosto [August] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/516"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 96 - Settembre [September] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/517"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 98 - Novembre [November] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/518"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 99 - Dicembre [December] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/519"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 10, No. 106 - Agosto-Settembre [August-September] 1928</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/520"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 11, No. 108 - Gennaio-Febbraio [January-February] 1929</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/521"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 11, No. 109 - Marzo-Maggio [March-May] 1929</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/522"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 11, No. 110 - Giugno-Luglio [June-July] 1929</a><br /></span><br /><span><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/480"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute </em>[main entry]</a></span>
Italian
<em><strong>Il Messaggero della Salute: rivista mensile d'igiene, di terapia fisio-psichica e di cultura eclettica </strong></em>[<span>The Messenger of Health: a monthly review of hygiene, of physico-psychiatric therapy, and of eclectic culture], <strong>Anno 11, </strong><strong></strong><strong>No. 110.</strong> <strong>Chicago: Italian Labor Publishing Co., Giugno-Luglio [June-July] 1929.<br /></strong></span>
<span>Just when you thought you could put all Italian American newspapers or magazines into "boxes" labelled one of the following, namely, (1) "Bourgeois- <em>Prominente</em> Class," (2) "Anarchist, socialist, et al., and anti-fascist", or (3) "Fascist," - that is, that Italian Americans were either scrambling to "make" America, nose to the grindstone, and don't make any trouble, or political - let's remake the world order and its politics; or let's oppose the anarchists, et al., we find the uncategorizable <em>Il Messaggero della Salute. </em>Forty-four monthly issues of it, no less!<em><br /><br /></em><em>Il Messaggero</em> has no mention in Durante, in the <em>Routledge History of Italian Americans</em> (William Connell, Stanislao Pugliese, ed., 2018), <em>The Italian American Experience: an Encyclopedia</em> (Sal LaGumina et al., 2000), <em>La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience</em> (Jerre Mangione, Ben Morreale, ed., 1992) or in any other reference work except a brief and unenlightening entry by Giovanni E. Schiavo in <em>The Italians in Chicago: A Study of Americanization</em> (Reprint: New York, Arno Press, 1975), p. 107. There the magazine's existence and only the name of the publisher, "T. Lucidi," but not its printer, the Italian Labor Publishing Company - a socialist press, is noted, without comment other than to observe that it is one of two Italian magazines in Chicago <em>not </em>written in a "language accessible to the average Italian with grammar school education." Note that Schiavo's book was originally published in 1928 by the Italian-American Publishing Company, which in 1917 published <em>Why Italy Entered into the World War </em>and <em>Soltanto l'eliminazione della neutralità potrà subito e per sempre impedire le guerre, </em>q.v., of Luigi Carnovale, discussed below, and copies of several of whose books in Italian are in the collection, q.v.<br /><br />"Statement of the ownership, management, circulation etc. required by the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912" wihtin an issue of the magazine dated 1924 sheds little light: T. Lucidi is listed as owner, publisher, and editor, but you could figure that out from any issue of the magazine. No one else is listed in the statement, and there are no circulation figures.<br /><br />So what "box" do we fit it into?<br /><br />This monthly magazine that lasted for at least eleven years (1918 or 1919-1929) and possibly longer was the "organ of the Italian Nature Association and of the Eclectic Universal Association." Of course, a "nature association" does sound like a nudist colony, not exactly a conventional (or even conventionally radical) fixture of Italian American life. Indeed, there are articles about sex - not exactly a staple of magazines of the left or the right.<br /><br />Here are some sample articles: the May 1927 issue begins with an essay by founder and director Lucidi himself (see below) entitled "Cerebralism." It begins with a rather odd discussion of the principle by which Omar, in his decree as to the destruction of the library of Alexandria, said books that were consistent with the Koran could be destroyed as "superfluous," and books in it that were in disagreement with the Koran should be destroyed as dangerous and damaging. So, perforce, the writer is neither Catholic nor anti-clerical, unlike the vast majority of all the writers in the collection, and he is at least sympathetic to some aspects of the Muslim faith.<br /><br />Here are some hints beyond looking at some essays in some issues from what we know of Lucidi. He was the publisher of <em>La Parola</em>, later called <em>La Parola Proletaria</em>, according to Durante, and see <em>La Parola del Popolo: rivista bimestrale. <br /><br /></em>Yet leftist (or other conventional) politics is not to be found in a sampling of issues of <em>Il messaggero.</em><br /><br />Perhaps <em>Il Messaggero della Salute</em> - <em>The Messenger of Health</em> - is just what it sounds like: a guide to how to improve one's health and well-being, irrespective of politics of any kind. The articles are by Italians and non-Italians alike, more of the latter. The same issue discussed above has an article by Rudolf Steiner, the Austrian philosopher, social reformer and esotericist, whose essay here discusses, besides Christianity, Yoga (as the wisdom of the East), Rosacrutionism and Gnosticism. Avem's <em>Geoterapia (Geotherapy)</em>, whose subtitle in the ad is "Ritornate alla Natura!" - seemingly a call to join a nudist colony perhaps? - is heavily advertised in most issues, as is Aldo Lavagnini's <em>Eufisia: the art of staying well</em>, promising "health, vigor, beauty and longevity." <br /><br />Yet the fact that this magazine was written entirely in Italian seems oddly out of character with the brave new world it appears to be introducing to its readers. That is, one might have imagined a magazine like this to have been written by and for Italians in <em>English</em>, appealing to the more free-thinking, socially (not necessarily politically) progressive elements of the Italian immigrant community, eager to participate in American experiments of various sorts.<br /><br />A letter by Lucidi to one of the collection's authors, Luigi Carnovale, suggests that Lucidi was having trouble in 1921 - two years after the first issue - making a financial go of the magazine. We're delighted he managed to last for another 9 or so years.<br /><br />I found a copy for sale of one of the other works advertised in an issue of <em>Il Messaggero, </em>a curiously named brochure containing one "lecture", called <em>The Crusaders Academy of Science, Incorporated: Constituted for the promotion and development of the spiritual and mental faculties</em>, directed by the Masters of the Crusaders Order of the World, of the Masonic Society, q.v. <br /><br />Ah, Masons! Finally something familiar, although Masons or Freemasons aren't found in the <em>Routledge History</em> or the <em>Italian American Encyclopedia</em>, but there is an excerpt from Michele Pane in Durante that speaks of a charcacter who is a "Venerable of the Freemasons of the Mazzini Lodge."<br /><br />Inside this typescript or mimeogaphed brochure, undated but perhaps 1932, the seller opined, there is advertised "Transcychology," "the Ancient Mysteries," Occultism (Spiritualism-magnetism and Allied Sciences," and "Projection and Psychic Levitation-Systmes and Practices." The ad seems to be promoting "A Course of Superior Studies" compiled by Gaetano Russo, M.Ps.Sc., Director General of the Crusaders Order of the World. There follows episode No. 36 of the course, namely, "astrology-horoscopes." The cover contain a photograph of the headquarters, at 1857 Anthony Avenue, corner of Mt. Hope Place, in the Bronx. The building was previously the Shuttleworth mansion, built in 1896.<br /><br />One could say that while there is heavy Italian American involvement or investment in the magazine, and the cults that support it, the philosophy is in no particular sense "Italian" or "Italian American." Perhaps even especially for that reason, this magazine shines light on what is to me a hitherto unknown aspect of Italian American culture in Italian in the early decades of the 20th century. <br /><br />The 44 or more issues of this magazine alone should keep a few graduate students busy for a while.</span>
T. Lucidi
Italian Labor Publishing Co.
Giugno-Luglio [June-July] 1929
<span><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/481"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, <strong></strong>No. 55 - Gennaio [January] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/482"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 6, No. 57 - Marzo [March] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/483"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 58 - Aprile [April] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/484"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 59 - Maggio [May] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/485"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 60 - Giugno [June] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/486"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 61 - Luglio [July] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/487"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 6, No. 62 - Agosto [August] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/488"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 63 - Settembre [September] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/489"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 64 - Ottobre [October] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/490"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 65 - Novembre [November] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/491"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 66 - Dicembre [December] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/492"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 67 - Gennaio-Febbraio [January-February] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/493"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 68 - Marzo [March] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/494"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7<em>, </em>No. 69 - Aprile [April] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/495"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 70 - Maggio [May] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/496"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 71 - Giugno [June] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/497"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 72 - Luglio [July] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/498"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 74 - Settembre [September] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/499"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 75 - Ottobre [October] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/500"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 7, No. 76 - Novembre-Dicembre [November-December] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/501"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 77 - Gennaio [January] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/502"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 78 - Febbraio [February] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/503"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 79 - Marzo [March] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/504"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 80 - Aprile [April] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/505"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 81 - Maggio [May] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/506"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 8, No. 82 - Giugno [June] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/507"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 84 - Agosto [August] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/508"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 85 - Settembre [September] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/554"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 8, No. 86 - Ottobre [October] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/509"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 87 - Novembre-Dicembre [November-December] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/555"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute</em>, Anno 9, No. 88 - Gennaio [January] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/510"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 90 - Marzo [March] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/511"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 91 - Aprile [April] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/512"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 92 - Maggio [May] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/513"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 93 - Giugno [June] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/514"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 94 - Luglio [July] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/515"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 95 - Agosto [August] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/516"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 96 - Settembre [September] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/517"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 98 - Novembre [November] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/518"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 99 - Dicembre [December] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/519"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 10, No. 106 - Agosto-Settembre [August-September] 1928</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/520"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 11, No. 108 - Gennaio-Febbraio [January-February] 1929</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/521"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 11, No. 109 - Marzo-Maggio [March-May] 1929</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/523"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 11, No. 111 - Dicembre [December] 1929</a><br /></span><br /><span><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/480"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute </em>[main entry]</a></span>
Italian
<em><strong>Il Messaggero della Salute: rivista mensile d'igiene, di terapia fisio-psichica e di cultura eclettica </strong></em>[<span>The Messenger of Health: a monthly review of hygiene, of physico-psychiatric therapy, and of eclectic culture], <strong>Anno 11, </strong><strong></strong><strong>No. 109.</strong> <strong>Chicago: Italian Labor Publishing Co., Marzo-Maggio [March-May] 1929.<br /></strong></span>
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: <br /><br /><em>Il Messaggero della Salute: rivista mensile d'igiene, di terapia fisio-psichica e di cultura eclettica</em> [The Messenger of Health: a monthly review of hygiene, of physico-psychiatric therapy, and of eclectic culture]. Chicago: Italian Labor Publishing Co., Gennaio [January] 1924 (Vol. 6) - Dicembre [December] 1929 (Anno XI).
T. Lucidi
Italian Labor Publishing Co.
Marzo-Maggio [March-May] 1929
<span><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/481"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, <strong></strong>No. 55 - Gennaio [January] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/482"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 6, No. 57 - Marzo [March] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/483"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 58 - Aprile [April] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/484"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 59 - Maggio [May] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/485"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 60 - Giugno [June] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/486"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 61 - Luglio [July] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/487"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 6, No. 62 - Agosto [August] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/488"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 63 - Settembre [September] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/489"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 64 - Ottobre [October] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/490"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 65 - Novembre [November] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/491"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 66 - Dicembre [December] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/492"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 67 - Gennaio-Febbraio [January-February] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/493"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 68 - Marzo [March] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/494"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7<em>, </em>No. 69 - Aprile [April] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/495"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 70 - Maggio [May] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/496"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 71 - Giugno [June] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/497"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 72 - Luglio [July] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/498"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 74 - Settembre [September] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/499"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 75 - Ottobre [October] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/500"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 7, No. 76 - Novembre-Dicembre [November-December] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/501"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 77 - Gennaio [January] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/502"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 78 - Febbraio [February] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/503"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 79 - Marzo [March] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/504"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 80 - Aprile [April] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/505"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 81 - Maggio [May] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/506"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 8, No. 82 - Giugno [June] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/507"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 84 - Agosto [August] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/508"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 85 - Settembre [September] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/554"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 8, No. 86 - Ottobre [October] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/509"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 87 - Novembre-Dicembre [November-December] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/555"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute</em>, Anno 9, No. 88 - Gennaio [January] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/510"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 90 - Marzo [March] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/511"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 91 - Aprile [April] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/512"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 92 - Maggio [May] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/513"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 93 - Giugno [June] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/514"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 94 - Luglio [July] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/515"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 95 - Agosto [August] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/516"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 96 - Settembre [September] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/517"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 98 - Novembre [November] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/518"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 99 - Dicembre [December] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/519"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 10, No. 106 - Agosto-Settembre [August-September] 1928</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/520"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 11, No. 108 - Gennaio-Febbraio [January-February] 1929</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/522"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 11, No. 110 - Giugno-Luglio [June-July] 1929</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/523"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 11, No. 111 - Dicembre [December] 1929</a><br /></span><br /><span><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/480"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute </em>[main entry]</a></span>
Italian
<em><strong>Il Messaggero della Salute: rivista mensile d'igiene, di terapia fisio-psichica e di cultura eclettica </strong></em>[<span>The Messenger of Health: a monthly review of hygiene, of physico-psychiatric therapy, and of eclectic culture], <strong>Anno 11, </strong><strong>No. 108.</strong> <strong>Chicago: Italian Labor Publishing Co., Gennaio-Febbraio [January-February] 1929.</strong></span>
<span>Just when you thought you could put all Italian American newspapers or magazines into "boxes" labelled one of the following, namely, (1) "Bourgeois- <em>Prominente</em> Class," (2) "Anarchist, socialist, et al., and anti-fascist", or (3) "Fascist," - that is, that Italian Americans were either scrambling to "make" America, nose to the grindstone, and don't make any trouble, or political - let's remake the world order and its politics; or let's oppose the anarchists, et al., we find the uncategorizable <em>Il Messaggero della Salute. </em>Forty-four monthly issues of it, no less!<em><br /><br /></em><em>Il Messaggero</em> has no mention in Durante, in the <em>Routledge History of Italian Americans</em> (William Connell, Stanislao Pugliese, ed., 2018), <em>The Italian American Experience: an Encyclopedia</em> (Sal LaGumina et al., 2000), <em>La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience</em> (Jerre Mangione, Ben Morreale, ed., 1992) or in any other reference work except a brief and unenlightening entry by Giovanni E. Schiavo in <em>The Italians in Chicago: A Study of Americanization</em> (Reprint: New York, Arno Press, 1975), p. 107. There the magazine's existence and only the name of the publisher, "T. Lucidi," but not its printer, the Italian Labor Publishing Company - a socialist press, is noted, without comment other than to observe that it is one of two Italian magazines in Chicago <em>not </em>written in a "language accessible to the average Italian with grammar school education." Note that Schiavo's book was originally published in 1928 by the Italian-American Publishing Company, which in 1917 published <em>Why Italy Entered into the World War </em>and <em>Soltanto l'eliminazione della neutralità potrà subito e per sempre impedire le guerre, </em>q.v., of Luigi Carnovale, discussed below, and copies of several of whose books in Italian are in the collection, q.v.<br /><br />"Statement of the ownership, management, circulation etc. required by the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912" wihtin an issue of the magazine dated 1924 sheds little light: T. Lucidi is listed as owner, publisher, and editor, but you could figure that out from any issue of the magazine. No one else is listed in the statement, and there are no circulation figures.<br /><br />So what "box" do we fit it into?<br /><br />This monthly magazine that lasted for at least eleven years (1918 or 1919-1929) and possibly longer was the "organ of the Italian Nature Association and of the Eclectic Universal Association." Of course, a "nature association" does sound like a nudist colony, not exactly a conventional (or even conventionally radical) fixture of Italian American life. Indeed, there are articles about sex - not exactly a staple of magazines of the left or the right.<br /><br />Here are some sample articles: the May 1927 issue begins with an essay by founder and director Lucidi himself (see below) entitled "Cerebralism." It begins with a rather odd discussion of the principle by which Omar, in his decree as to the destruction of the library of Alexandria, said books that were consistent with the Koran could be destroyed as "superfluous," and books in it that were in disagreement with the Koran should be destroyed as dangerous and damaging. So, perforce, the writer is neither Catholic nor anti-clerical, unlike the vast majority of all the writers in the collection, and he is at least sympathetic to some aspects of the Muslim faith.<br /><br />Here are some hints beyond looking at some essays in some issues from what we know of Lucidi. He was the publisher of <em>La Parola</em>, later called <em>La Parola Proletaria</em>, according to Durante, and see <em>La Parola del Popolo: rivista bimestrale. <br /><br /></em>Yet leftist (or other conventional) politics is not to be found in a sampling of issues of <em>Il messaggero.</em><br /><br />Perhaps <em>Il Messaggero della Salute</em> - <em>The Messenger of Health</em> - is just what it sounds like: a guide to how to improve one's health and well-being, irrespective of politics of any kind. The articles are by Italians and non-Italians alike, more of the latter. The same issue discussed above has an article by Rudolf Steiner, the Austrian philosopher, social reformer and esotericist, whose essay here discusses, besides Christianity, Yoga (as the wisdom of the East), Rosacrutionism and Gnosticism. Avem's <em>Geoterapia (Geotherapy)</em>, whose subtitle in the ad is "Ritornate alla Natura!" - seemingly a call to join a nudist colony perhaps? - is heavily advertised in most issues, as is Aldo Lavagnini's <em>Eufisia: the art of staying well</em>, promising "health, vigor, beauty and longevity." <br /><br />Yet the fact that this magazine was written entirely in Italian seems oddly out of character with the brave new world it appears to be introducing to its readers. That is, one might have imagined a magazine like this to have been written by and for Italians in <em>English</em>, appealing to the more free-thinking, socially (not necessarily politically) progressive elements of the Italian immigrant community, eager to participate in American experiments of various sorts.<br /><br />A letter by Lucidi to one of the collection's authors, Luigi Carnovale, suggests that Lucidi was having trouble in 1921 - two years after the first issue - making a financial go of the magazine. We're delighted he managed to last for another 9 or so years.<br /><br />I found a copy for sale of one of the other works advertised in an issue of <em>Il Messaggero, </em>a curiously named brochure containing one "lecture", called <em>The Crusaders Academy of Science, Incorporated: Constituted for the promotion and development of the spiritual and mental faculties</em>, directed by the Masters of the Crusaders Order of the World, of the Masonic Society, q.v. <br /><br />Ah, Masons! Finally something familiar, although Masons or Freemasons aren't found in the <em>Routledge History</em> or the <em>Italian American Encyclopedia</em>, but there is an excerpt from Michele Pane in Durante that speaks of a charcacter who is a "Venerable of the Freemasons of the Mazzini Lodge."<br /><br />Inside this typescript or mimeogaphed brochure, undated but perhaps 1932, the seller opined, there is advertised "Transcychology," "the Ancient Mysteries," Occultism (Spiritualism-magnetism and Allied Sciences," and "Projection and Psychic Levitation-Systmes and Practices." The ad seems to be promoting "A Course of Superior Studies" compiled by Gaetano Russo, M.Ps.Sc., Director General of the Crusaders Order of the World. There follows episode No. 36 of the course, namely, "astrology-horoscopes." The cover contain a photograph of the headquarters, at 1857 Anthony Avenue, corner of Mt. Hope Place, in the Bronx. The building was previously the Shuttleworth mansion, built in 1896.<br /><br />One could say that while there is heavy Italian American involvement or investment in the magazine, and the cults that support it, the philosophy is in no particular sense "Italian" or "Italian American." Perhaps even especially for that reason, this magazine shines light on what is to me a hitherto unknown aspect of Italian American culture in Italian in the early decades of the 20th century. <br /><br />The 44 or more issues of this magazine alone should keep a few graduate students busy for a while.</span>
T. Lucidi
Italian Labor Publishing Co.
Gennaio-Febbraio [January-February] 1929
<span><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/481"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, <strong></strong>No. 55 - Gennaio [January] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/482"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 6, No. 57 - Marzo [March] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/483"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 58 - Aprile [April] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/484"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 59 - Maggio [May] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/485"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 60 - Giugno [June] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/486"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 61 - Luglio [July] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/487"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 6, No. 62 - Agosto [August] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/488"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 63 - Settembre [September] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/489"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 64 - Ottobre [October] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/490"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 65 - Novembre [November] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/491"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 66 - Dicembre [December] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/492"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 67 - Gennaio-Febbraio [January-February] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/493"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 68 - Marzo [March] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/494"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7<em>, </em>No. 69 - Aprile [April] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/495"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 70 - Maggio [May] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/496"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 71 - Giugno [June] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/497"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 72 - Luglio [July] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/498"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 74 - Settembre [September] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/499"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 75 - Ottobre [October] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/500"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 7, No. 76 - Novembre-Dicembre [November-December] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/501"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 77 - Gennaio [January] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/502"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 78 - Febbraio [February] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/503"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 79 - Marzo [March] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/504"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 80 - Aprile [April] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/505"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 81 - Maggio [May] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/506"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 8, No. 82 - Giugno [June] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/507"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 84 - Agosto [August] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/508"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 85 - Settembre [September] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/554"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 8, No. 86 - Ottobre [October] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/509"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 87 - Novembre-Dicembre [November-December] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/555"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute</em>, Anno 9, No. 88 - Gennaio [January] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/510"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 90 - Marzo [March] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/511"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 91 - Aprile [April] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/512"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 92 - Maggio [May] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/513"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 93 - Giugno [June] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/514"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 94 - Luglio [July] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/515"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 95 - Agosto [August] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/516"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 96 - Settembre [September] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/517"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 98 - Novembre [November] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/518"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 99 - Dicembre [December] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/519"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 10, No. 106 - Agosto-Settembre [August-September] 1928</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/521"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 11, No. 109 - Marzo-Maggio [March-May] 1929</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/522"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 11, No. 110 - Giugno-Luglio [June-July] 1929</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/523"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 11, No. 111 - Dicembre [December] 1929</a><br /></span><br /><span><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/480"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute </em>[main entry]</a></span>
Italian
<em><strong>Il Messaggero della Salute: rivista mensile d'igiene, di terapia fisio-psichica e di cultura eclettica </strong></em>[<span>The Messenger of Health: a monthly review of hygiene, of physico-psychiatric therapy, and of eclectic culture], <strong>Anno 10, </strong><strong>No. 106.</strong> <strong>Chicago: Italian Labor Publishing Co., Agosto-Settembre [August-September] 1928.<br /></strong></span>
<span>Just when you thought you could put all Italian American newspapers or magazines into "boxes" labelled one of the following, namely, (1) "Bourgeois- <em>Prominente</em> Class," (2) "Anarchist, socialist, et al., and anti-fascist", or (3) "Fascist," - that is, that Italian Americans were either scrambling to "make" America, nose to the grindstone, and don't make any trouble, or political - let's remake the world order and its politics; or let's oppose the anarchists, et al., we find the uncategorizable <em>Il Messaggero della Salute. </em>Forty-four monthly issues of it, no less!<em><br /><br /></em><em>Il Messaggero</em> has no mention in Durante, in the <em>Routledge History of Italian Americans</em> (William Connell, Stanislao Pugliese, ed., 2018), <em>The Italian American Experience: an Encyclopedia</em> (Sal LaGumina et al., 2000), <em>La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience</em> (Jerre Mangione, Ben Morreale, ed., 1992) or in any other reference work except a brief and unenlightening entry by Giovanni E. Schiavo in <em>The Italians in Chicago: A Study of Americanization</em> (Reprint: New York, Arno Press, 1975), p. 107. There the magazine's existence and only the name of the publisher, "T. Lucidi," but not its printer, the Italian Labor Publishing Company - a socialist press, is noted, without comment other than to observe that it is one of two Italian magazines in Chicago <em>not </em>written in a "language accessible to the average Italian with grammar school education." Note that Schiavo's book was originally published in 1928 by the Italian-American Publishing Company, which in 1917 published <em>Why Italy Entered into the World War </em>and <em>Soltanto l'eliminazione della neutralità potrà subito e per sempre impedire le guerre, </em>q.v., of Luigi Carnovale, discussed below, and copies of several of whose books in Italian are in the collection, q.v.<br /><br />"Statement of the ownership, management, circulation etc. required by the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912" wihtin an issue of the magazine dated 1924 sheds little light: T. Lucidi is listed as owner, publisher, and editor, but you could figure that out from any issue of the magazine. No one else is listed in the statement, and there are no circulation figures.<br /><br />So what "box" do we fit it into?<br /><br />This monthly magazine that lasted for at least eleven years (1918 or 1919-1929) and possibly longer was the "organ of the Italian Nature Association and of the Eclectic Universal Association." Of course, a "nature association" does sound like a nudist colony, not exactly a conventional (or even conventionally radical) fixture of Italian American life. Indeed, there are articles about sex - not exactly a staple of magazines of the left or the right.<br /><br />Here are some sample articles: the May 1927 issue begins with an essay by founder and director Lucidi himself (see below) entitled "Cerebralism." It begins with a rather odd discussion of the principle by which Omar, in his decree as to the destruction of the library of Alexandria, said books that were consistent with the Koran could be destroyed as "superfluous," and books in it that were in disagreement with the Koran should be destroyed as dangerous and damaging. So, perforce, the writer is neither Catholic nor anti-clerical, unlike the vast majority of all the writers in the collection, and he is at least sympathetic to some aspects of the Muslim faith.<br /><br />Here are some hints beyond looking at some essays in some issues from what we know of Lucidi. He was the publisher of <em>La Parola</em>, later called <em>La Parola Proletaria</em>, according to Durante, and see <em>La Parola del Popolo: rivista bimestrale. <br /><br /></em>Yet leftist (or other conventional) politics is not to be found in a sampling of issues of <em>Il messaggero.</em><br /><br />Perhaps <em>Il Messaggero della Salute</em> - <em>The Messenger of Health</em> - is just what it sounds like: a guide to how to improve one's health and well-being, irrespective of politics of any kind. The articles are by Italians and non-Italians alike, more of the latter. The same issue discussed above has an article by Rudolf Steiner, the Austrian philosopher, social reformer and esotericist, whose essay here discusses, besides Christianity, Yoga (as the wisdom of the East), Rosacrutionism and Gnosticism. Avem's <em>Geoterapia (Geotherapy)</em>, whose subtitle in the ad is "Ritornate alla Natura!" - seemingly a call to join a nudist colony perhaps? - is heavily advertised in most issues, as is Aldo Lavagnini's <em>Eufisia: the art of staying well</em>, promising "health, vigor, beauty and longevity." <br /><br />Yet the fact that this magazine was written entirely in Italian seems oddly out of character with the brave new world it appears to be introducing to its readers. That is, one might have imagined a magazine like this to have been written by and for Italians in <em>English</em>, appealing to the more free-thinking, socially (not necessarily politically) progressive elements of the Italian immigrant community, eager to participate in American experiments of various sorts.<br /><br />A letter by Lucidi to one of the collection's authors, Luigi Carnovale, suggests that Lucidi was having trouble in 1921 - two years after the first issue - making a financial go of the magazine. We're delighted he managed to last for another 9 or so years.<br /><br />I found a copy for sale of one of the other works advertised in an issue of <em>Il Messaggero, </em>a curiously named brochure containing one "lecture", called <em>The Crusaders Academy of Science, Incorporated: Constituted for the promotion and development of the spiritual and mental faculties</em>, directed by the Masters of the Crusaders Order of the World, of the Masonic Society, q.v. <br /><br />Ah, Masons! Finally something familiar, although Masons or Freemasons aren't found in the <em>Routledge History</em> or the <em>Italian American Encyclopedia</em>, but there is an excerpt from Michele Pane in Durante that speaks of a charcacter who is a "Venerable of the Freemasons of the Mazzini Lodge."<br /><br />Inside this typescript or mimeogaphed brochure, undated but perhaps 1932, the seller opined, there is advertised "Transcychology," "the Ancient Mysteries," Occultism (Spiritualism-magnetism and Allied Sciences," and "Projection and Psychic Levitation-Systmes and Practices." The ad seems to be promoting "A Course of Superior Studies" compiled by Gaetano Russo, M.Ps.Sc., Director General of the Crusaders Order of the World. There follows episode No. 36 of the course, namely, "astrology-horoscopes." The cover contain a photograph of the headquarters, at 1857 Anthony Avenue, corner of Mt. Hope Place, in the Bronx. The building was previously the Shuttleworth mansion, built in 1896.<br /><br />One could say that while there is heavy Italian American involvement or investment in the magazine, and the cults that support it, the philosophy is in no particular sense "Italian" or "Italian American." Perhaps even especially for that reason, this magazine shines light on what is to me a hitherto unknown aspect of Italian American culture in Italian in the early decades of the 20th century. <br /><br />The 44 or more issues of this magazine alone should keep a few graduate students busy for a while.<br /><br /></span>
T. Lucidi
Italian Labor Publishing Co.
Agosto-Settembre [August-September] 1928
<span><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/481"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, <strong></strong>No. 55 - Gennaio [January] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/482"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 6, No. 57 - Marzo [March] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/483"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 58 - Aprile [April] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/484"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 59 - Maggio [May] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/485"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 60 - Giugno [June] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/486"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 61 - Luglio [July] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/487"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 6, No. 62 - Agosto [August] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/488"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 63 - Settembre [September] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/489"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 64 - Ottobre [October] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/490"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 65 - Novembre [November] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/491"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 66 - Dicembre [December] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/492"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 67 - Gennaio-Febbraio [January-February] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/493"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 68 - Marzo [March] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/494"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7<em>, </em>No. 69 - Aprile [April] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/495"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 70 - Maggio [May] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/496"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 71 - Giugno [June] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/497"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 72 - Luglio [July] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/498"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 74 - Settembre [September] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/499"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 75 - Ottobre [October] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/500"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 7, No. 76 - Novembre-Dicembre [November-December] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/501"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 77 - Gennaio [January] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/502"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 78 - Febbraio [February] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/503"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 79 - Marzo [March] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/504"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 80 - Aprile [April] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/505"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 81 - Maggio [May] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/506"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 8, No. 82 - Giugno [June] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/507"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 84 - Agosto [August] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/508"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 85 - Settembre [September] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/509"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 87 - Novembre-Dicembre [November-December] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/510"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 90 - Marzo [March] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/511"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 91 - Aprile [April] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/512"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 92 - Maggio [May] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/513"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 93 - Giugno [June] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/514"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 94 - Luglio [July] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/515"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 95 - Agosto [August] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/516"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 96 - Settembre [September] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/517"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 98 - Novembre [November] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/518"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 99 - Dicembre [December] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/520"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 11, No. 108 - Gennaio-Febbraio [January-February] 1929</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/521"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 11, No. 109 - Marzo-Maggio [March-May] 1929</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/522"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 11, No. 110 - Giugno-Luglio [June-July] 1929</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/523"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 11, No. 111 - Dicembre [December] 1929</a><br /></span><br /><span><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/480"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute </em>[main entry]</a></span>
Italian
<em><strong>Il Messaggero della Salute: rivista mensile d'igiene, di terapia fisio-psichica e di cultura eclettica </strong></em>[<span>The Messenger of Health: a monthly review of hygiene, of physico-psychiatric therapy, and of eclectic culture], <strong>Anno 9, </strong><strong></strong><strong>No. 99.</strong> <strong>Chicago: Italian Labor Publishing Co., Dicembre [December] 1927.<br /></strong></span>
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: <br /><br /><em>Il Messaggero della Salute: rivista mensile d'igiene, di terapia fisio-psichica e di cultura eclettica</em> [The Messenger of Health: a monthly review of hygiene, of physico-psychiatric therapy, and of eclectic culture]. Chicago: Italian Labor Publishing Co., Gennaio [January] 1924 (Vol. 6) - Dicembre [December] 1929 (Anno XI).
T. Lucidi
Italian Labor Publishing Co.
Dicembre [December] 1927
<span><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/481"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, <strong></strong>No. 55 - Gennaio [January] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/482"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 6, No. 57 - Marzo [March] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/483"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 58 - Aprile [April] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/484"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 59 - Maggio [May] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/485"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 60 - Giugno [June] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/486"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 61 - Luglio [July] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/487"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 6, No. 62 - Agosto [August] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/488"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 63 - Settembre [September] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/489"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 64 - Ottobre [October] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/490"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 65 - Novembre [November] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/491"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 66 - Dicembre [December] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/492"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 67 - Gennaio-Febbraio [January-February] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/493"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 68 - Marzo [March] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/494"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7<em>, </em>No. 69 - Aprile [April] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/495"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 70 - Maggio [May] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/496"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 71 - Giugno [June] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/497"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 72 - Luglio [July] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/498"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 74 - Settembre [September] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/499"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 75 - Ottobre [October] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/500"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 7, No. 76 - Novembre-Dicembre [November-December] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/501"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 77 - Gennaio [January] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/502"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 78 - Febbraio [February] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/503"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 79 - Marzo [March] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/504"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 80 - Aprile [April] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/505"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 81 - Maggio [May] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/506"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 8, No. 82 - Giugno [June] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/507"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 84 - Agosto [August] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/508"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 85 - Settembre [September] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/554"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 8, No. 86 - Ottobre [October] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/509"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 87 - Novembre-Dicembre [November-December] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/555"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute</em>, Anno 9, No. 88 - Gennaio [January] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/510"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 90 - Marzo [March] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/511"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 91 - Aprile [April] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/512"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 92 - Maggio [May] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/513"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 93 - Giugno [June] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/514"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 94 - Luglio [July] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/515"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 95 - Agosto [August] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/516"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 96 - Settembre [September] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/517"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 98 - Novembre [November] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/519"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 10, No. 106 - Agosto-Settembre [August-September] 1928</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/520"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 11, No. 108 - Gennaio-Febbraio [January-February] 1929</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/521"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 11, No. 109 - Marzo-Maggio [March-May] 1929</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/522"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 11, No. 110 - Giugno-Luglio [June-July] 1929</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/523"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 11, No. 111 - Dicembre [December] 1929</a><br /></span><br /><span><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/480"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute </em>[main entry]</a></span>
Italian
<em><strong>Il Messaggero della Salute: rivista mensile d'igiene, di terapia fisio-psichica e di cultura eclettica </strong></em>[<span>The Messenger of Health: a monthly review of hygiene, of physico-psychiatric therapy, and of eclectic culture], <strong>Anno 9, </strong><strong></strong><strong>No. 98.</strong> <strong>Chicago: Italian Labor Publishing Co., Novembre [November] 1927.<br /></strong></span>
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: <br /><br /><em>Il Messaggero della Salute: rivista mensile d'igiene, di terapia fisio-psichica e di cultura eclettica</em> [The Messenger of Health: a monthly review of hygiene, of physico-psychiatric therapy, and of eclectic culture]. Chicago: Italian Labor Publishing Co., Gennaio [January] 1924 (Vol. 6) - Dicembre [December] 1929 (Anno XI).
T. Lucidi
Italian Labor Publishing Co.
Novembre [November] 1927
<span><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/481"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, <strong></strong>No. 55 - Gennaio [January] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/482"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 6, No. 57 - Marzo [March] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/483"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 58 - Aprile [April] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/484"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 59 - Maggio [May] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/485"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 60 - Giugno [June] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/486"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 61 - Luglio [July] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/487"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 6, No. 62 - Agosto [August] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/488"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 63 - Settembre [September] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/489"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 64 - Ottobre [October] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/490"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 65 - Novembre [November] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/491"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 66 - Dicembre [December] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/492"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 67 - Gennaio-Febbraio [January-February] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/493"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 68 - Marzo [March] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/494"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7<em>, </em>No. 69 - Aprile [April] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/495"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 70 - Maggio [May] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/496"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 71 - Giugno [June] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/497"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 72 - Luglio [July] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/498"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 74 - Settembre [September] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/499"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 75 - Ottobre [October] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/500"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 7, No. 76 - Novembre-Dicembre [November-December] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/501"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 77 - Gennaio [January] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/502"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 78 - Febbraio [February] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/503"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 79 - Marzo [March] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/504"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 80 - Aprile [April] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/505"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 81 - Maggio [May] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/506"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 8, No. 82 - Giugno [June] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/507"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 84 - Agosto [August] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/508"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 85 - Settembre [September] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/554"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 8, No. 86 - Ottobre [October] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/509"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 87 - Novembre-Dicembre [November-December] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/555"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute</em>, Anno 9, No. 88 - Gennaio [January] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/510"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 90 - Marzo [March] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/511"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 91 - Aprile [April] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/512"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 92 - Maggio [May] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/513"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 93 - Giugno [June] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/514"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 94 - Luglio [July] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/515"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 95 - Agosto [August] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/516"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 96 - Settembre [September] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/518"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 99 - Dicembre [December] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/519"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 10, No. 106 - Agosto-Settembre [August-September] 1928</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/520"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 11, No. 108 - Gennaio-Febbraio [January-February] 1929</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/521"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 11, No. 109 - Marzo-Maggio [March-May] 1929</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/522"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 11, No. 110 - Giugno-Luglio [June-July] 1929</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/523"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 11, No. 111 - Dicembre [December] 1929</a><br /></span><br /><span><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/480"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute </em>[main entry]</a></span>
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<em><strong>Il Messaggero della Salute: rivista mensile d'igiene, di terapia fisio-psichica e di cultura eclettica </strong></em>[<span>The Messenger of Health: a monthly review of hygiene, of physico-psychiatric therapy, and of eclectic culture], <strong>Anno 9, </strong><strong></strong><strong>No. 96.</strong> <strong>Chicago: Italian Labor Publishing Co., Settembre [September] 1927.</strong></span>
<span><br /><br />Just when you thought you could put all Italian American newspapers or magazines into "boxes" labelled one of the following, namely, (1) "Bourgeois- <em>Prominente</em> Class," (2) "Anarchist, socialist, et al., and anti-fascist", or (3) "Fascist," - that is, that Italian Americans were either scrambling to "make" America, nose to the grindstone, and don't make any trouble, or political - let's remake the world order and its politics; or let's oppose the anarchists, et al., we find the uncategorizable <em>Il Messaggero della Salute. </em>Forty-four monthly issues of it, no less!<em><br /><br /></em><em>Il Messaggero</em> has no mention in Durante, in the <em>Routledge History of Italian Americans</em> (William Connell, Stanislao Pugliese, ed., 2018), <em>The Italian American Experience: an Encyclopedia</em> (Sal LaGumina et al., 2000), <em>La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience</em> (Jerre Mangione, Ben Morreale, ed., 1992) or in any other reference work except a brief and unenlightening entry by Giovanni E. Schiavo in <em>The Italians in Chicago: A Study of Americanization</em> (Reprint: New York, Arno Press, 1975), p. 107. There the magazine's existence and only the name of the publisher, "T. Lucidi," but not its printer, the Italian Labor Publishing Company - a socialist press, is noted, without comment other than to observe that it is one of two Italian magazines in Chicago <em>not </em>written in a "language accessible to the average Italian with grammar school education." Note that Schiavo's book was originally published in 1928 by the Italian-American Publishing Company, which in 1917 published <em>Why Italy Entered into the World War </em>and <em>Soltanto l'eliminazione della neutralità potrà subito e per sempre impedire le guerre, </em>q.v., of Luigi Carnovale, discussed below, and copies of several of whose books in Italian are in the collection, q.v.<br /><br />"Statement of the ownership, management, circulation etc. required by the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912" wihtin an issue of the magazine dated 1924 sheds little light: T. Lucidi is listed as owner, publisher, and editor, but you could figure that out from any issue of the magazine. No one else is listed in the statement, and there are no circulation figures.<br /><br />So what "box" do we fit it into?<br /><br />This monthly magazine that lasted for at least eleven years (1918 or 1919-1929) and possibly longer was the "organ of the Italian Nature Association and of the Eclectic Universal Association." Of course, a "nature association" does sound like a nudist colony, not exactly a conventional (or even conventionally radical) fixture of Italian American life. Indeed, there are articles about sex - not exactly a staple of magazines of the left or the right.<br /><br />Here are some sample articles: the May 1927 issue begins with an essay by founder and director Lucidi himself (see below) entitled "Cerebralism." It begins with a rather odd discussion of the principle by which Omar, in his decree as to the destruction of the library of Alexandria, said books that were consistent with the Koran could be destroyed as "superfluous," and books in it that were in disagreement with the Koran should be destroyed as dangerous and damaging. So, perforce, the writer is neither Catholic nor anti-clerical, unlike the vast majority of all the writers in the collection, and he is at least sympathetic to some aspects of the Muslim faith.<br /><br />Here are some hints beyond looking at some essays in some issues from what we know of Lucidi. He was the publisher of <em>La Parola</em>, later called <em>La Parola Proletaria</em>, according to Durante, and see <em>La Parola del Popolo: rivista bimestrale. <br /><br /></em>Yet leftist (or other conventional) politics is not to be found in a sampling of issues of <em>Il messaggero.</em><br /><br />Perhaps <em>Il Messaggero della Salute</em> - <em>The Messenger of Health</em> - is just what it sounds like: a guide to how to improve one's health and well-being, irrespective of politics of any kind. The articles are by Italians and non-Italians alike, more of the latter. The same issue discussed above has an article by Rudolf Steiner, the Austrian philosopher, social reformer and esotericist, whose essay here discusses, besides Christianity, Yoga (as the wisdom of the East), Rosacrutionism and Gnosticism. Avem's <em>Geoterapia (Geotherapy)</em>, whose subtitle in the ad is "Ritornate alla Natura!" - seemingly a call to join a nudist colony perhaps? - is heavily advertised in most issues, as is Aldo Lavagnini's <em>Eufisia: the art of staying well</em>, promising "health, vigor, beauty and longevity." <br /><br />Yet the fact that this magazine was written entirely in Italian seems oddly out of character with the brave new world it appears to be introducing to its readers. That is, one might have imagined a magazine like this to have been written by and for Italians in <em>English</em>, appealing to the more free-thinking, socially (not necessarily politically) progressive elements of the Italian immigrant community, eager to participate in American experiments of various sorts.<br /><br />A letter by Lucidi to one of the collection's authors, Luigi Carnovale, suggests that Lucidi was having trouble in 1921 - two years after the first issue - making a financial go of the magazine. We're delighted he managed to last for another 9 or so years.<br /><br />I found a copy for sale of one of the other works advertised in an issue of <em>Il Messaggero, </em>a curiously named brochure containing one "lecture", called <em>The Crusaders Academy of Science, Incorporated: Constituted for the promotion and development of the spiritual and mental faculties</em>, directed by the Masters of the Crusaders Order of the World, of the Masonic Society, q.v. <br /><br />Ah, Masons! Finally something familiar, although Masons or Freemasons aren't found in the <em>Routledge History</em> or the <em>Italian American Encyclopedia</em>, but there is an excerpt from Michele Pane in Durante that speaks of a charcacter who is a "Venerable of the Freemasons of the Mazzini Lodge."<br /><br />Inside this typescript or mimeogaphed brochure, undated but perhaps 1932, the seller opined, there is advertised "Transcychology," "the Ancient Mysteries," Occultism (Spiritualism-magnetism and Allied Sciences," and "Projection and Psychic Levitation-Systmes and Practices." The ad seems to be promoting "A Course of Superior Studies" compiled by Gaetano Russo, M.Ps.Sc., Director General of the Crusaders Order of the World. There follows episode No. 36 of the course, namely, "astrology-horoscopes." The cover contain a photograph of the headquarters, at 1857 Anthony Avenue, corner of Mt. Hope Place, in the Bronx. The building was previously the Shuttleworth mansion, built in 1896.<br /><br />One could say that while there is heavy Italian American involvement or investment in the magazine, and the cults that support it, the philosophy is in no particular sense "Italian" or "Italian American." Perhaps even especially for that reason, this magazine shines light on what is to me a hitherto unknown aspect of Italian American culture in Italian in the early decades of the 20th century. <br /><br />The 44 or more issues of this magazine alone should keep a few graduate students busy for a while.<br /><br /><br /></span>
T. Lucidi
Settembre [September] 1927
<span><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/481"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, <strong></strong>No. 55 - Gennaio [January] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/482"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 6, No. 57 - Marzo [March] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/483"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 58 - Aprile [April] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/484"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 59 - Maggio [May] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/485"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 60 - Giugno [June] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/486"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 61 - Luglio [July] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/487"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 6, No. 62 - Agosto [August] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/488"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 63 - Settembre [September] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/489"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 64 - Ottobre [October] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/490"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 65 - Novembre [November] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/491"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 6, No. 66 - Dicembre [December] 1924</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/492"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 67 - Gennaio-Febbraio [January-February] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/493"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 68 - Marzo [March] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/494"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7<em>, </em>No. 69 - Aprile [April] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/495"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 70 - Maggio [May] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/496"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 71 - Giugno [June] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/497"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 72 - Luglio [July] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/498"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 74 - Settembre [September] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/499"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 7, No. 75 - Ottobre [October] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/500"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 7, No. 76 - Novembre-Dicembre [November-December] 1925</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/501"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 77 - Gennaio [January] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/502"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 78 - Febbraio [February] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/503"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 79 - Marzo [March] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/504"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 80 - Aprile [April] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/505"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 81 - Maggio [May] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/506"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 8, No. 82 - Giugno [June] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/507"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 84 - Agosto [August] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/508"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 85 - Settembre [September] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/554"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute,</em> Anno 8, No. 86 - Ottobre [October] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/509"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 8, No. 87 - Novembre-Dicembre [November-December] 1926</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/555"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute</em>, Anno 9, No. 88 - Gennaio [January] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/510"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 90 - Marzo [March] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/511"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 91 - Aprile [April] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/512"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 92 - Maggio [May] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/513"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 93 - Giugno [June] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/514"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 94 - Luglio [July] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/515"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 95 - Agosto [August] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/517"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 98 - Novembre [November] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/518"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 9, No. 99 - Dicembre [December] 1927</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/519"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 10, No. 106 - Agosto-Settembre [August-September] 1928</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/520"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 11, No. 108 - Gennaio-Febbraio [January-February] 1929</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/521"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 11, No. 109 - Marzo-Maggio [March-May] 1929</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/522"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 11, No. 110 - Giugno-Luglio [June-July] 1929</a><br /><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/523"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute, </em>Anno 11, No. 111 - Dicembre [December] 1929</a><br /></span><br /><span><a href="https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/480"><em>Il Messaggero della Salute </em>[main entry]</a></span>
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