For biographical information on Vacirca, see entries for La Russia in fiamme and Il solco - the general entry for Jan.-Sept. 1927.The collection includes:La Strada, Anno 1, No. 4 - Settembre [September] 1937 La Strada, Anno 1, No. 6 - Novembre…
Vacirca’s anti-fascist biography of Mussolini covers the period from his growing up in poverty to his rise to “Il Duce” in 1925 and emperor in 1936. The bright pictorial cover (artist unknown) is illustrated with a graphic drawing of a red-eyed…
First produced in New York on April 19, 1931, at the Civic Repertory Theatre, Madre remains one of the best-known anti-fascist plays written and produced in America by Italians. It is discussed at some length by historian Marcella Bencivenni in…
The subject of La Russia in fiamme is one Vacirca knew well from his interviews (while a senator in Italy) with Lenin and Trotsky: the Russian Revolution, from its inception in 1917. The first few pages feature quotations in French (Romain Rolland)…
This analysis of Italian emigration to the Americas up to the mid-1890s is useful generally about early immigration.After about six pages generally on immigration to the Americas, there are about ten pages on emigration to the U.S. There are longer…
Like Che cosa è l’I.W.W.?, this work and L'I.W.W. nella teoria e nella pratica of Justus Ebert three years later, in Chicago, q.v., are translations from English-language originals, intended to reach an Italian-language-only audience of workers who…
Roudine wrote this work in his native French, and published it in a bi-weekly periodical in 1911 directed by Henri Fabre in Paris. Max Stirner appeared in Italian first in issues of La Cronaca Sovversiva between January and April of that year,…
Two Italian patriotic songs, printed in blue ink on both sides of a single sheet, issued by an Italian-American publisher in New York City. Numbered Nos. 174 and No. 175, suggesting that Matacea was a fairly prolific publisher of such songsheets, but…
The cover has a variant (from the title page) of the title of the work, namely, Come i falchi: Scene dramattiche in due atti.Postiglione (b. 1893 L'Aquila; d. 1924 L'Aquila) left Italy in 1910, embarking at Le Havre for New York, whence he went to…
This is the most recently dated imprint (1951) of the Italian Book Company in the collection. Giuliano (b. 1922, killed 1950) was the 20th c. Sicilian "gentleman bandit" who was the subject of Mario Puzo's The Sicilian. On the outside and inside rear…
Ugo Fedeli was one of Frank Brand's (Errico Arrigoni) comrades in a factory in Milan whom Arrigoni identifies as an anarchist-communist. He was a frequent contributor to Arrigoni's anarchist periodical, Eresia.Fedeli also wrote a biography of…
This work recites at the outset Ciancabilla's conversion from socialism to anarchism due to his interview of Errico Malatesta in 1897 for an article Ciancabilla was writing for Avanti!. About half of the 78 pages is about his time in the U.S.Author…
The cover of this pamphlet (as well as the English language version, in English) notes “Con prefazioni di Arturo Giovannitti e John Dos Passos.” In the earlier (1945) English language version, also in the collection, the goal is stated: to incite…
The anarchists of Barre were a colorful group. Frequently on the run from the postal or other federal authorities for his publishing and anarchist activities, and looking for a new base of operations after a short time in Paterson, Luigi Galleani and…
Stamp on front: "Libreria ed. ELVIRA CATELLO 1946 First Avenue, New York City|Manifattura di Calendari Artistici e Cartoline Illustrate| Catalogo a Richiesta [manufacturer of artistic calendars and illustrated postcards | catalogue on request]";…
Nunzio was the pseudonym of Mike Salerno, who edited L'Unita Operai, a Communist newspaper.It is curious to me that there was a Bronx County chapter of the Italian Communist Party in America, rather than just, say, a New York City chapter.Note that…
We can estimate the date of this work because the introduction begins from the vantage point of "21 years after the beginning of the last world war," which was 1914; thus, it is 1935.Among the advertisements on the recto of the last leaf is that of…
Born in 1855, Fragale emigrated from a town near Catanzaro in Calabria in 1892. He wrote poetry while pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Hammondton, NJ, until 1900. The generally patriotic and pro-monarchial tone of his verses separates him from…