The work contains "argomenti dei capitoli" (4 pp.)("argument of the chapters") prior to the full text; the story takes place 400 years ago, and was designed to appeal to Italian immigrants' preference for the romantic and chivalric tales that were a…
In this novel, the author appears as a character who like the novel itself unabashedly promotes his two grammars (like this copy, a facsimile copy of one of which is in the collection) as designed to help the working class, untutored Italian…
This second grammar by Bassetti followed hard on what he described in ads as the success of the first one. Designed especially for immigrant Italians, it contained worksheets and both correct spelling and phonetic spelling of English words to help…
New-York reflects a frankness, thoroughness, intensity and texture in Italian about the experiences of Italians in America that is largely lacking in English-language works by Italian Americans, who were in general loathe to disclose their dirty…
Observations by the well-known founder of the Scalabrinian order, Giovanni Battista Scalabrini (1839-1905), the founder of two other religious orders, and a prelate who visited Italian immigrants in the U.S. and in Brazil. Some discussion of issues…
This earliest of the almanacs (of 6 or 7) in the Collection, published in San Francisco, lacks a book catalogue in the rear that the 1894 one by the same publisher in San Francisco possesses, q.v., but there are ads for bookstores and for newspapers,…
It is a guess, but perhaps a good one, that the Palermitan who published this 1883 work in that Sicilian city - with the unconventional (for Italians) last-name-first-name - is the same author who would, as late as more than four decades later, in…
This is Silvio Pellico's much reprinted memoirs of his 10 years imprisonment in the Hapsburg's prison in Spielberg for advocating for the freedom of Italy from Bourbon rule. There in prison he met several Italians who became refugees to the U.S.,…