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Sull'Oceano [On the Ocean]. Milano: Fratelli Treves, 1897. De Amicis (b. 1846 Oneglia (Liguria) - d. 1908 Bordighera, Italy) was a novelist, journalist, travel-writer, poet and short-story writer. In 1896,…
Gli Italiani in America [Italians in America]. Roma: Tip. di Giovanni Balbi, 1896.This analysis of Italian emigration to the Americas up to the mid-1890s is useful generally about early immigration.After about six pages generally on…
L'America ne' suoi primi fattori: la colonizzazione e l'emigrazione: Nuovi Orizzonti [America in its first factors: colonization and emigration: New Horizons]. Firenze: Tip. di G. Barbera, 1893.This work of activist (in Italy) Giuseppe Godio first presented as part of "new horizons" the idea here that sending Italians to live in less than…
Luigi Palma di Cesnola e il Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York [Luigi Palma di Cesnola and the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York]. New York: [n.p.], 1898.This copy, with an inscription to “the most noble Madam Contessa Valdrighi” dated June 7, 1899, is a hagiography of the Torinese count, Palma di…
Un italiano in America [An Italian in America]. Milano: Casa Editrice La Cisalpina, 1899.This is the second edition of this work, the first one with illustrations. The first edition, published in 1892, is also in the Collection. Rossi (b.…
Nel paese dei dollari (tre anni a New-York) [In the Country of Dollars: Three years in New York]. Milano: Max Kantorowicz, 1893.This work first appeared as a collection of articles issued in La Tribuna of Rome.It includes vivid impressions of three years in New York, with…
Un italiano in America [An Italian in America]. Milano: Treves, ed., 1892.This is the very hard to find first edition of this important, astute observation of the personal and collective experience of Italian immigrants in…
A proposito d'un regicidio?; Biblioteca "Questione Sociale" Nono Opuscolo [What About a Regicide? Library of "La Questione Sociale," Ninth Pamphlet]. Paterson: Tipo. De "El Despertar," 1900.Gaetano Bresci, the Italian American silkworker in Paterson travelled to Italy to assassinate Italian King Umberto, and succeeded in doing so on July…
Almanacco illustrato dell'Elvezia: dono agli abbonati del 1895 [Illustrated Almanac of the "Elvezia", a gift for its subscribers in 1895]. San Francisco: L'Elvezia, [1894].One of the earlier of the almanacs (of about 6 or 7) in the Collection. This 1895 Italo-Svizzero Americano almanac was published in San Francisco,…
Della protezione degli emigranti italiani in America [On the Protection of Immigrant Italians in America]. Roma: Forzani e C. Ti. Del Senato, 1895.This 19-page essay was by the famous Italian economist & statistician (1840-1920), "dalla Nuova Antologia, Vol. LX, serie III, Fascicolo 15 December…
La morale di Arlecchino [The Moral of Arlecchino]. Chicago: Tip. "La Parola", [n.d.]While not a play as such, this small pamphlet, first published in Treviso in 1898, tells the dramatic tale of the troubles of an oppressed,…
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…
I misteri di Mulberry Street [The Mysteries of Mulberry Street] [Facsimile]. New York: Frugone & Balletto, [1893].Martino Marazzi's Voices of Italian America: a History of Early italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology (Madison, 2004) contains an…