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I sotterranei di New York [The Undergrounds of New York]. New York: Società Libraria Italiana, 1915.This novel is the 16th of 19 or 20 that Ciambelli authored over a long and productive career. Two of the others, La trovatella di Mulberry Street and…
Il giornalismo degli emigrati italiani nel Nord America [Journalism of the Emigrant Italians in North America]. Chicago: Casa Editrice del giornale “L’Italia,” 1909.Though himself a founder of a newspaper, Il Pensiero [Thought] in 1904 in St. Louis, Carnovale denounces Italian American journalism in this work. In…
Sotto il segno del littorio I: La genesi del fascismo [Under the Sign of the Lictors I: The origin of fascism]. Chicago: Libreria Sociale, 1933.The stunning front and back covers of Sotto il segno were illustrated by Fort Velona (b. Calabria, 1893 - d. New York, 1965), a socialist, labor…
Parole collettive [Collective Words]. New York: S.E.A. [Società Editrice Americana], 1941.Ezio Taddei (b. Livorno, 1895 - d. Rome, 1956) was involved in Italian politics at an early age: at thirteen he was arrested for involvement in a…
1905 Italian American Directory: Guida generale per il commercio Italo Americano [General guide for the Italian American trade]. New York: Italian American Directory Co., 1905.Attempting to fill the same need that American city directories had long performed, this Italian American directory is notable for its national (and…
Fascismo dalla marcia su Roma all'impero [Fascism from the March on Rome to the Empire]. Boston: Peabody Press, 1937.An obviously laudatory view of fascism from the author, with an unusual smiling faced portrait of Mussolini, with facsimile signature, as a…
La società proletaria [Proletarian Society]. Brooklyn: Libreria Editrice dei Lavoratori Industriali del Mondo, 1910s.This is one of two works by Braida, and in the same period, published by the Libreria Ed. dei Lavoratori industriali del Mondo, i.e., the I.W.W, and…
Santa Lucia: le canzoni del 1929 [Saint Lucy: songs of 1929]. New York: Italian Book Company, 1929.The actual publisher of this music in Italy was Piedigrotta "Santa Lucia", Libero Bovio, Direttore. The Italian Book Company was the importer…
Santa Lucia: le canzoni del 1925 [Saint Lucy: Songs of 1925]. New York: Italian Book Company, 1925.The actual publisher of these songs was Casa ed. musicale, Francesco Feola, Napoli. The Italian Book Company, the importer, held exclusive rights to…
Serenatella: versi di Libero Bovio [Serenatella: verses by Libero Bovio]. New York: Italian Book Company, 1918.The Italian Book Company is nominally the "publisher," but in fact it's really only the copyright holder in the U.S., as noted at the bottom of the…
Mussolini Red and Black. London: Wishart Books Limited, 1935.Note that his translation by Dorothy Daudley is from the 1932 French edition (Mussolini en chemise, q.v.), rather than the Italian original of 1927 in…
Mezzo secolo di anarchia (1898-1945) [A Half Century of Anarchy (1898-1945)]. Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1954.This memoir describes Borghi's arrival in the world of anarchism, so new to him, in very dramatic terms. He was amazed by America: "For a long time, I…
Il banchetto dei cancri [The Banquet of the Evil Ones]. New York: Libreria Editrice dei Lavoratori Industriali del Mondo, 1925.This is a collection of anti-fascist articles Borghi had published in the then New York-based Il Proletario about Matteotti’s assassination by…
Errico Malatesta in 60 anni di lotte anarchiche: storia*critica*ricordi [Errico Malatesta in 60 Years of Anarchist Struggles: History, Criticism, Memories]. New York: Edizioni Sociali, 1933.Preface by Sébastien Faure. That the story of the transnational work of a figure like Malatesta was written in Italian, published in New York, and…
Mussolini Red and Black. New York: Freie Arbeiter Stimme, 1938.For a full description of this work and its significance, see the description of it in the entry for the 1927 edition (published in New York) of…
Gli anarchici e le alleanze: conferenza … tenuta a sera del 12 Gennaio 1927 alla "Rand School" sotto gli auspici del gruppi: Volontà e South Brooklyn (con appendice di Luigi Fabbri) [Anarchists and Alliances: a Lecture Given on the Evening of January 12, 1927 at the Rand School under the auspices of the groups: Will and South Brooklyn]. New York: Circolo operaio di cultura sociale di New York, [1927].The publication of the trasncript of an evening's lecture or, more so, a debate between speakers at a public meeting was not an unusual event,…
Cinquant'anni di vita italiana in America [Fifty Years of Italian Life in America]. New York: Bagnasco Press, 1921.Inscribed by the author, see photo, to Luigi Barzini [Sr.], February, 1922. Alfredo Bosi’s 1921 Cinquant’anni di vita italiana in America claims…
Cinquant'anni di vita italiana in America [Fifty Years of Italian Life in America]. New York: Bagnasco Press, 1921.See the full description of this work in the entry for the other copy.This is a library copy of this work, with a softer cover page, and no rear…
Il primato degli italiani nella storia e nella civiltà americana: il breviario degli italiani d'America [The Preeminence of Italians in American History and Civilization: a Reference Guide of Italians in America]. Bologna: Licinio Cappelli, [1925].Branchi was an Italian who published his work both in the old country and in the U.S. For a full bio of Branchi, see entry on Così parlò Mister…
"Dagoes": novelle transatlantiche ["Dagoes": Transatlantic Stories]. Bologna: Licinio Cappelli, 1927.Note the inscription of this copy by the author "al Professore Guglielmo Ferrero." Ferrero (b. 1871 — d. 1942) was an Italian historian, journalist…
Così parlò Mister Nature: fatti e impressioni di un italiano in America [Thus spoke Mr. Nature: Events and Impressions of an Italian in America]. Bologna: Licinio Cappelli, 1953.Eugenio Camillo Branchi (b. Genoa, 1883 - d. 1962) was a distinguished journalist, a contributor to the Corriere dell Sera, among other…
La via del Paradiso [The Way of Paradise]. New York: Casa ed. N. Morgillo, [1909].A curious play with Saint Peter, Pope Pius VI, Vittorio Emanuele II, Garibaldi, all at the entrance to heaven. "Pietro" (mispelled "Pitero") says to…
Manuale degli Stati Uniti: istruzioni ad uso degli immigranti e stranieri [Manual of the United States: Instructions for the Use of Immigrants and Foreigners]. Washington: Società Nazionale Figlie della Rivoluzione Americana, 1930.There were 91 editions of this work published between 1923 and 2001 in 17 languages, and more entries in WorldCat for this work than any other.Author…
Memorie di vita di tempeste sociali [Recollections of a Life in Social Storms]. Chicago: A cura del Comitato "Vittorio Buttis," 1940.The gorgeous cover art is by Fort Velona, one of the great graphic artists (see Sotto il segno del littorio, q.v.) and labor organizers active in…
La verità su Luigi Antonini [The Truth about Luigi Antonini]. Brooklyn: Peter V. Cacchione Association, 1944.Cacchione, a Consigliere Comunale [City Councilman] of New York, was the first who was a Communist Party USA member.Only two years before this 1944…