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A Grammar of the Italian Language. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1838. Simultaneously published in London by Richard James Kennett.
Born Ignazio Batolo, Bachi (b. Palermo, 1787; d. Boston, 1853) received his law degree at the University of Padua, but fled the country in opposition to Bourbon rule in 1815. He became instructor of Italian at Harvard in 1826 (a year after Lorenzo Da…
Saggi de' novellieri italiani d'ogni secolo [Samples of Italian Short Story Writers of Each Century: drawn from the most celebrated writers, with brief notes on the life of each one of them]. Boston: Gray e Bowen, 1832.
This is one of several works in the Collection that, while shedding no light on Italian immigration in America, and not authored by an Italian in America, nevertheless merits inclusion as part of the "pre-history" of Italians in America. Although…
Memorie di Lorenzo da Ponte da Ceneda in tre volumi [Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte][Volume 1 only]. New York: Gray & Bunce, Stampatori, 1829.
This much more famous work (than Poesie Varie) was also "Pubblicate dall' Autore." Da Ponte’s Memorie could not have been published in Italy at the time they were written for the reason that he freely criticized the Austro-Hungarian empire that…
Poesie Varie [Diverse Poems]. New York: J.H.Turney [ptr], 1830.
"Pubblicate dall' Autore". This work, “published by the author,” of course long before the Great Migration, was dedicated to Domenico Rossetti di Scander, a wealthy patrician from Trieste mentioned with affection in the Memorie di Lorenzo Da Ponte…
De Porquet's Italian Phrases; or, Il Fraseggiatore Toscano. Boston: S. Burdett & Co., 1832.
Reflecting the widespread interest in learning Italian among Americans in this era, this work was published in the same year, 1832, as the Longfellow work in the collection. This is the "third edition, revised and corrected," by Carlo Alfieri, an…