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Tolstoismo e anarchismo: rapporto presentato al Congresso Operaio Rivoluzionario Internazionale di Parigi dal Gruppo degli Studenti Socialisti Rivoluzionarii Internazionalisti di Parigi [Tolstoyism and anarchism: Report presented to the Revolutionary Working-Class International Congress of Paris of the Socialist Students Revolutionary International Group of Paris]. Barre: Biblioteca Circolo Studi Sociali, [1900?]
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…
La parola del popolo: rivista bimestrale: Cinquantesimo (50) Anniversario 1908-1958 [The Word of the People: bimonthly review: 50th Anniversary 1908-1958]. Chicago: La Parola del Popolo Publishing Assoc., 1958.
One of the longest-lived of the socialist publications, La Parola went through many name changes to evade postal authorities and for other reasons. This is a large-format, 336-page commemorative edition for the 50th anniversary of the newspaper whose…
Core 'ngrato: canzone napoletana [Ungrateful Heart: Neapolitan Song]. Milano: Ed. Ricordi, 1947.
Note "versi di R. Cordiferro" in interior; "trascrizione per fisarmonica di Luigi Oreste Anzaghi [transciption for accordion by Luigi Oreste Anzaghi]" noted on outside cover; published by G. Ricordi © 1911, i.e., several decades before this copy,…
Bresci e Savoia: il regicidio: con l'aggiunta di un articolo del medesimo autore sulla misteriosa morte di Bresci [[Gaetano] Bresci and [the King of] Savoy: the Regicide, with the inclusion of an article by the same author on the mysterious death of Bresci]. Paterson: Ed. a cura della Libreria Sociologica, 1901.
Gaetano Bresci was a weaver working in Paterson, NJ in the 1890s, part of the vibrant Italian anarchist community; he traveled to Italy planing to assassinate the king, and succeeded. His 1901 hanging while in prison for his crime was declared a…
Guida alla salute: Il come prevenire le malattie, come curarle, come riguadagnare la salute, estesa descrizione delle cause, sintomi, e trattamento di tutte le malattie del corpo umano con un capitolo sul matrimonio e la vita sessuale [Guide to Health: How to anticipate illnesses, how to treat them, how to regain health, extensive description of the causes, symptoms, and treatment of all illnesses of the human body with a chapter on marriage and sexual life]. New York: Italian American Directory Co., 1904.
Collins, working in Liverpool, was a physician and quack. An issue of The Medical Standard dated 1896 announces his medical residency in Hicksville, NY. Later, he appears to have been fined $150 for advertising his medical practice without first…
Argomenti libertari (pagine di propaganda antiparlamentare) [Libertarian Arguments (pages of anti-Parliamentarian propaganda)]. Milano: Libreria Editrice Sociale, 1911.
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]";…
Tre anni [1937-39] di lavoro in difesa degli immigrati italiani in America [Three Years [1937-39] of Work in Defense of Immigrant Italians in America]. New York: Comitato italiano per la difesa degli immigrati, 1940.
The leader of the Italian Committee for the Defense of Immigrants, Edward Corsi (b. Capestrano (L'Aquila) 1896 - d. New York 1965) immigrated to the U.S. in 1907 at the age of ten with his mother and step-father. A studious boy, he frequented Harlem…
Per la libertà! (dalle mie conversazioni col Conte di Rudio, complice de Felice Orsini) [For Liberty! (of my conversations with Count di Rudio, accomplice of Felice Orsini)]. San Francisco: Canessa Printing Co., 1913.
For several years, I had a facsimile copy of this important work. Then to my surprise, the original - impossible to find - became available.Carlo Camillo Di Rudio (1832-1910), one of the most colorful of 19th century Italian immigrants, to be sure,…
Per la libertà! (dalle mie conversazioni col Conte di Rudio, complice de Felice Orsini) [For Liberty! (of my conversations with Count di Rudio, accomplice of Felice Orsini)] [Facsimile]. San Francisco: Canessa Printing Co., 1913.
Facsimile copy. I acquired this facsimile copy before I found the original. Kept in the collection as a reading copy, as the original is fairly fragile. See the original copy's description of this work.
Ode alla Calabria [Ode to Calabria]. Buenos Aires: Casa ed. "La Voce dei Calabresi," 1933.
This work, published by the book arm of the Italian-language Argentinian newspaper, La Voce dei Calabresi, commemorates and reflects a literary soiree held in Brooklyn in 1930 (and elsewhere, e.g., Toronto) in which the title poem was recited (and…
Ode alla Calabria [Ode to Calabria].Buenos Aires: Casa ed. "La Voce dei Calabresi," 1933.
With a translation (from Calabrese into Italian) by F. Greco, this recounts an evening soiree given in honor of Cordiferro by his friends from Acri (Cosenza) 14 December 1930 in the house of Antonio Meringolo in Brooklyn.See the full description of…
Ermete Novelli: Conferenza letta la sera del 27 Aprile 1919 alla "Irish Federation Hall" di New York per l'inaugurazione del "Circolo Filodrammatica Ermete Novelli" [Ermete Novelli: lecture read the evening of 27 April 1919 at "Irish Federation Hall" of New York for the opening of the "Philodrammatic Circle of Ermete Novelli."] New York: Manhattan Printing Co., 1919.
As the title of this work explains, this talk was given by Cordiferro at the opening of the Philodrammatic Circle of Ermete Novelli.Ermete Novelli was an Italian tragedian who, beginning in 1907, toured in the U.S. (after having done so for years…
La vendetta: lirica in versi liberi [Vendetta: lyrics in free verse]. New York: La Follia di New York - Marziale Sisca, 1933.
Inscribed by author, as with the copy of Il prisco cavaliere in the collection, to the "scrittrice [writer] Anna Lannutti, con sincera ammirazione/Riccardo Cordiferro/ 22 gennaio, 1933."Of interest is that Lannutti's verses had just appeared in the…
Scugnizzo: poemetto napoletano [Street urchin: short Neapolitan poem]. New York: Coccè Press, [1924].
Inscribed to "Al poeta Armando Massa, con sincera e cordiale amici fa'a, con viva ammrazione, Riccardo Cordiferro, N.Y. 21 Giugno 1924."
Il prisco cavaliere [The Old Horseman]. New York: F. Sparacino; "La Follia di New York," 1924.
This copy inscribed by author to the writer Anna Lannutti in 1933, like La vendetta. This copy lacks covers or a title page. This work tells a story of Italy in 1840s & 1850s. This comic satire — the title is a play on words, as “prisco” means…
Il prete attraverso la storia: conferenza di Riccardo Cordiferro [The Priest through History: lecture by Riccardo Cordiferro]. Barre: Edito a cura del Circolo di Studi Sociali, [1915].
Dedicated to Miss Alice Griffith and Elizabeth Ash; 27 photo illustrations printed in part "with the kind permission of Mr Lorenzo Sosso," and in part with permission of New San Francisco Magazine.See discussion of this work in the essay by Francesco…
Fascismo: masnadieri antichi e moderni [Fascismo: Ancient and Modern Brigands]. San Francisco: Tipografia Internazionale, 1943.
Dedicated to Signora Aida Fraschina. A partially satiric - “Fascismo celeste,” as well as “Fascismo biondo” and “Fascismo bruno,” are titles of some of the chapters - but also serious look at the movement by Crespi at his most playful as well as on…
Il tallone di ferro [Heel of Iron]. San Francisco: Gene's Print Shop. 1939.
This copy is inscribed by Crespi "to Liberto Nathan"; on verso of title page, the inscription continues "A Liberto Nathan per il suo buon successo -- nell'esame dell'Università 1940 [for his great success in his university exams, 1940]" & directs…
San Francisco e la sua catastrofe [San Francisco and its Catastrophe]. Tipografia Internazionale, 1906.
After the Italians of New York, those of San Francisco (and Chicago) probably had the most well-developed network of periodical press, book press, theatre, literature of various types, associations and other forms of collective efforts, including…
Gli italiani di New York. [The Italians of New York]. New York: Labor Press, 1939.
This Italian version of the original WPA Guide "The Italians of New York" was "riveduta ed ampliata da Aberto Cupelli" (revised and expanded by Alberto Cupelli); sponsored by Guilds Commmittee for Federal Writers Publications, Inc.The WPA Guides to…
Juvenilia: Italian and English Poems. New York: Saitta Press Co., 1928.
This was a gift from the author's son, also Pellegrino D'Acierno, distinguished literary scholar and professor at Hofstra U., now retired.
Tormento [Torment]. Paris: La Fraternelle, 1929.
In 1929 La Fraternelle in Paris published this, D'Andrea's first book of poetry, about her own personal anguish and social struggles, shortly after D'Andrea had entered the U.S. See Richiamo all'anarchia for her bio.Note, on the title page, that this…
Due conferenze: chi siamo e che cosa vogliamo: patria e religione [Two Lectures: Who We Are and What do We Want: Homeland and Religion]. Newark: Biblioteca de L'Adunata dei Refrattari, 1947.
Due conferenze includes two of D'Andrea's public speeches delivered during her lecture tours around the country - given in New York City on March 20, 1932 and (at Cooper Union) on January 6, 1929 - and published here in 1947 by the L’Adunata dei…
Richiamo all'anarchia: protesta e proposta anarchica in otto conferenze pronunciate in terra d'esilio durante la dominazione fascista [Call to Anarchy: Anarchic Protest and Proposal in 8 Lectures Given in a Land of Exile during the Fascist Domination]. Cesena: Edizioni l'antistato Cesena, 1965.
Virgilia D’Andrea (b. Sulmona, 1890; d. New York, 1933) did not live to see this work, published three decades after her death; she died suddenly at the young age of 43. D’Andrea immigrated to the U.S. with her lover, Armando Borghi in 1926 or 1927.…
Il Solco: rivista mensile di cultura popolare [The Furrow: monthly review of popular culture]. New York: Il Solco Publishing Co., January - September 1927.
A monthly periodical edited by Vincenzo Vacirca. Contains part of novel Il rogo [The Pyre] by Vacirca; according to Durante, Il rogo continues into 1928. Vincenzo Vacirca (b. Sicily, 1886; d. Italy, 1956) was a member of the Socialist Party of…