I misteri di New York, a novel that speaks of crime, corruption and political entanglements within and outside the Italian community, is an “almost indecipherable hodgepodge,” according to Martino Marazzi. Yet Marazzi's Voices of Italian America: a…
This is an illustrated and robust history written by a priest of the 21 Franciscan missions in California founded between 1769 and 1823. The publishers are listed at the same location (440 Sansome St. in San Francisco) in the 1915 Writings on…
This is a young Preziosi, a thoughtful observer of Italians in America, a sociological perhaps even more than an historical work. It is almost unrecognizable from the writer's later pro-fascist and anti-Semitic phase during the Fascist era.
Title page stamped "Liberia Editrice Elvira Catello, 1946 First Avenue, New York City," on this work published in Bologna. Bolognese herself, Maria Ryger (1885-1953) wrote often on syndicalist topics; another of her works was Il sindacalismo alla…
List of founding members as well as sections of the book in a rear table of contents, including rules of the organization, duties of the various officers, and grounds for expulsion and suspension, which include failure to scrupulously observe the…
"Copyright, April 1901 by Francesco Zanolini"; at the foot of the last page is "Stamperia V. Ciocia, 79 Centre St." Ciocia published his own work, La chiave dei sogni, e manualetto di chiromanzia in 1913, q.v., as well as being printer for other…
The author is Padre Laurenti, "di C. di G.", which I believe means Laurenti was a Jesuit (the "Compagnia di Gesu" or Society of Jesus). His interest in North America, and a focus of his travels in this report, is the spread of the Catholic religion…
Libero Tancredi was the journalistic pseudonym of Massimo Rocca (b. Torino 1884 - d. Salò 1973). This work dates from Rocca's youth, when he wrote for anarchist and syndicalist newspapers. However, by the beginning of 1920, he flirted with and then…
This short (13-page) pamphlet was published in Barre, VT by the Cronaca Sovversiva only about a year after that newspaper's founding in 1903 on the types of political views of different people the narrator met while a student at the University of…
From the cover, it appears that what unites these two different plays (by different playwrights) is that they both are of the "teatro sociale" [social theater]. There is nothing in Flamma, Schiavo or Durante about Professor Ciccarelli or his…
Arbib-Costa (b. Livorno, 1882; active, New York, 1900–1930), professor of romance languages at the College of the City of New York, wrote texts designed to help students of English and Italian. First published in 1906 by Francesco Tocci at his…
Set in the Abbruzzi, this play in three acts was written by a Waldensian pastor, Giovanni Tron, who ministered in East Harlem. As a young man, Norman Thomas took Italian lessons from him. This work is not found in OCLC. The dealer who sold me this…