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Archive of material related to the Buffalo section of the Federazione Socialista Italiana in the years 1919-1922.
This is a collection of approximately 30 letters and other documents (such as agendas for meetings ("Ordine del giorno," photograph here), a membership card, and the like) of the Buffalo section of the Federazione Socialista Italiana in the years…
Three World War I Patriotic (Anti-German Militarism) Italian-American Chromolithographs. New York: Italian Book Co., 1918.
These three chromolithographic prints or, given their location in the Princeton Poster Collection of the Smithsonian, posters, perhaps issued as a set, depict respectively the trial, execution, and burial of German militarism in the form of the…
Song Sheet: "A Canzona D' 'O Culera (Italia Bella)" / "Italia Sfurtunata, 'o Nubifragio 'e Casamicciola". New York: A. Matacea Music Publisher, 1910.
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…
Sonata elegiaca: dramma [Elegiac Sonata: Drama]. Brooklyn: Tartamella/Soc. Tipografica Italiana, 1921.
Ludovico (really Michele) Caminita (b. Palermo, 1878 - d. New York 1943?) had one of the lengthiest, most varied and colorful lives of all the Italian anarchists in America, starting or writing a number of newspapers (with politics ranging from left…
La crisi sociale da Cristo a Mussolini [The Social Crisis from Christ to Mussolini]. New York: Cocce Brothers, 1933.
In this 24-page pamphlet, Lisanti praises fascism, though noting its differences from Christianity. Lisanti declares that fascism has substituted for Christ’s exhortation to “Love your neighbor as you love yourself,” the “political imperative of…
Il Messaggero della Salute: rivista mensile d'igiene, di terapia fisio-psichica e di cultura eclettica [The Messenger of Health: a monthly review of hygiene, of physico-psychiatric therapy, and of eclectic culture], Anno 8, No. 78. Chicago: Italian Labor Publishing Co., Febbraio [February] 1926.
Just when you thought you could put all Italian American newspapers or magazines into "boxes" labelled one of the following, namely, (1) "Bourgeois- Prominente Class," (2) "Anarchist, socialist, et al., and anti-fascist", or (3) "Fascist," - that…
Il diavolo biondo [The Blond Devil][Facsimile]. New York: Nicoletti Bros Press, 1916.
Stanco’s eloquence and pessimism are amply illustrated in Il diavolo biondo. Martino Marazzi's Voices of Italian America: a History of Early Italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology (Madison, 2004) contains an excerpt from this work in…
Costituzione e regolamenti della Società Italiana di Mutuo Soccorso di North Adams, Mass. [Constitution and Regulations of the Italian Society of Mutual Aid of North Adam's, Mass.]. Springfield, Mass.: Tip. Ed. de "L'Eco Coloniale," 1914.
Mutual aid societies among the Italians were an important social mechanism for earlier immigrants to help more recent ones. Although we associate them with urban more than with rural areas, here is an example of the "constitution and rules" of one in…
Zarathustra. New York, 15 May 1925 - 15 June 1926.
A monthly magazine edited by Ernesto Valentini. Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American collecting: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which…
Zarathustra, Anno 2, No. 9. New York, 15 Marzo [March] 1926.
"Parla una volta al mese a tutti di tutto"Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however,…
Zarathustra, Anno 2, No. 8. New York, 15 Febbraio [February] 1926.
"Parla una volta al mese a tutti di tutto"Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however,…
Zarathustra, Anno 2, No. 7. New York, 15 Gennaio [January] 1926
"Parla una volta al mese a tutti di tutto"Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however,…
Zarathustra, Anno 2, No. 12. New York, 15 Giugno [June] 1926.
"Parla una volta al mese a tutti di tutto"Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however,…
Zarathustra, Anno 2, No. 11. New York, 15 Maggio [May] 1926.
"Parla una volta al mese a tutti di tutto"Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however,…
Zarathustra, Anno 1, No. 6. New York, 15 Decembre [December] 1925.
"Parla una volta al mese a tutti di tutto"Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however,…
Zarathustra, Anno 1, No. 5. New York, 15 Novembre [November] 1925.
"Parla una volta al mese a tutti di tutto"Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however,…
Zarathustra, Anno 1, No. 4. New York, 15 Ottobre [October] 1925.
"Parla una volta al mese a tutti di tutto"Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however,…
Zarathustra, Anno 1, No. 3. New York, 15 Settembre [September] 1925.
"Parla una volta al mese a tutti di tutto"Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however,…
Zarathustra, Anno 1, No. 2. New York, 15 Agosto [August] 1925.
"Parla una volta al mese a tutti di tutto"Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however,…
Zarathustra, Anno 1, No. 1. New York, 15 Maggio [May] 1925.
Copies of this magazine are one of the "holy grails" of Italian American publishing: of Zarathustra, Francesco Durante noted it was a "review of high cultural profile, oriented to the left, of which however, there is no trace in bibliographies or…
Voglio disturbare l'America: Lettere a Benedetto Croce e Giovanni Papini ed altro| A cura di Gabriel Cacho Millet [I Want to Trouble America: Letters to Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Papini, ed. by Gabriel Cacho Millet]. Firenze: La Casa Usher, 1980.
The path the life of Carnevali (1897-1942) took was unlike that of any other Italian American of his era. Emigrating to the US in 1914, after odd jobs, he taught Italian to Joel Spingarn, a Columbia University comparative literature professor.…
Vocabolario Napoletano-Italiano| compilato da Raffaele Andreoli. Napoli: Salvatore Di Fraia Ed., 1983.
There are many dictionaries for translating Italian into one of its dialects, and the dialect into Italian. The most frequent such that I have seen are Neapolitan and Sicilian but there are others. This Adreoli dictionary dates back to the 19th…
Viva Rambolot! (Bozzetto in un atto) [Viva Rambolot! Sketch in one act]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, [n.d.]
This work depicts the domestic life of a prosecutor who tries to explain and justify his work activities to his daughter in the service of “the Law.”For a brief bio of Damiani (1876-1953), see entry for his La bottega. After the deaths of Galleani…
Vita: rivista dei nostri giorni [Life: magazine of nowadays]. New York: Vita Publishing Co., September - October 1915.
Managed by Flavio Venanzi. An extremely uncommon and short-lived radical journal, edited (and with numerous contributions by) the important IWW activist-dramatist-poet Arturo Giovannitti. Vita appears to have been seeking to emulate, for an…
Vita: rivista dei nostri giorni [Life: magazine of nowadays], Anno 1, No. 2. New York: Vita Publishing Co., 15 Settembre [Septebmer] 1915.
This magazine was managed by Flavio Venanzi, whose writings are gathered in another work in the Collection, Scritti politici e letterarii: raccolti ed ordinati da Giovanni Di Gregorio. New York: Venanzi Memorial Committee, 1921. A short-lived radical…