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Statuto e regolamenti della Società Mutuo Soccorso Italiana di San Pedro "Giuseppe Mazzini" [Statutes and Rules of the Mutual Benevolence Society of San Pedro "Giuseppe Mazzini"]. Los Angeles: Tip[ografia]. de "L'Italo-Americano", [1910?].
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…
1905 Italian American Directory: Guida generale per il commercio Italo Americano [General guide for the Italian American trade]. New York: Italian American Directory Co., 1905.
Attempting to fill the same need that American city directories had long performed, this Italian American directory is notable for its national (and international) scope. It leaves no possible advertising space unused, with a lively multicolored…
Manuale di Chiromanzia: metodo pratico per leggere la mano [Palmistry Manual: practical method for reading the hand]. New York: Libreria Economica Italiana (Francesco Zanolini), 1901.
"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…
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…
Il mondo e le sue trasformazioni: dialoghi fra il nonno e la sua nepote [The World and its Transformations: dialogues between a grandpa and his granddaughter]. New York: Libreria Rossa, 1909.
This work has inconsistent bibliographic information: the date of 1909 is that of the publication of this work by the Libreria Rossa of Elivira Catello, q.v., who most libraries state as the publisher (U. Minn, U. Michigan, IISH (Amsterdam)). But…
Storia delle Missioni Francescane in California con illustrazioni [History of the Franciscan Missions in California, with illustrations]. San Francisco: Tipo. Castagno, Bright & Gold, 1915.
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…
Un viaggio nell' America del Nord [A Trip in North America]. Torino: Uff. Delle Let. Cattoliche, 1906.
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…
I misteri di New York: romanzo storico sociale| di Menotti Pellegrino |con annesso| Il Grande Manuale Internazionale| degli| Annunzi [The Mysteries of New York: historical social novel of Menotti Pellegrino, and annexed, the Great International Manuale of Advertisements][Facsimile]. New York: Tip. Ital. U Di Luca & Benedetti, 1903.
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…
Auto-difesa: pronunciata davanti al Tibunale di Mantova il 27 Ottobre 1909 [Self-Defense: pronounced before the Tribunal of Mantova, Oct. 27, 1909]. Bologna: Casa ed. "La Controcorrente", 1909.
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…
Verso il comunismo [Towards Communism]. Barre, VT: Tip. della Cronica Sovversiva, 1904.
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…
Pionieri ed eroi della storia americana [Pioneers and Heroes of American History]. New York: Frugone, Balletto & Pellegatti Printing & Publishing Co., 1907.
Dedicated to Melville Knox Bailey, founder & president of "Italo-American Educational League." Perhaps reflecting how early in the period of the Great Migration he was writing, Cavallaro’s work is not about Italians, but rather sets forth the…
Il giornalismo degli emigrati italiani nel Nord America [Journalism of the Emigrant Italians in North America]. Chicago: Casa Editrice del giornale “L’Italia,” 1909.
Though himself a founder of a newspaper, Il Pensiero [Thought] in 1904 in St. Louis, Carnovale denounces Italian American journalism in this work. In one of the newspaper articles collected here, Carnovale writes, p. 10, “this poor intellectual and…
Che cosa è la religione? [What is Religion?]. Paterson: Libreria Sociologica, 1906.
Preface by Guido Podrecca. This atheist, anarchist tract by Ludovio Caminita, see other works by him in the Collection, the then editor of Paterson's La Questione Sociale, the anarchist newspaper. Caminita was soon afterward served with notice by the…
Antinatale [AntiChristmas]. New York: Biblioteca "Novatore" No. 4, [1910].
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…
Guida degli Stati Uniti per l'immigrante italiano [Guide to the United States for the Italian Immigrant]. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1910.
Edited by the Società delle figlie della Rivoluzione Americana, Sezione di Connecticut (Daughters of the American Revolution, Connecticut Section). This copy was printed in the same year of publication as the first. A folded map of the United States…
Tennysoniane: "Nothing Will Die," "All Things Will Die". New York: Francesco Tocci, Ed., 1909.
A string-tied binding, like this one, and with deckled foredge, was an expensive way to produce books, and thus unusual in books published by Italians in the U.S. On the verso of the title page is "copyright 1909 by Prof. Giuseppe Cadicamo." Cadicamo…
Il Rivoluzionario: commedia in 3 atti. New York: Nicoletti Bros. Press, [c. 1910].
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…
Gl'Italiani negli Stati Uniti del Nord [Italians in the United States of North [America]][Facsimile]. Milano: Libreria Ed. Milanese, 1909.
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.
La via del Paradiso [The Way of Paradise]. New York: Casa ed. N. Morgillo, [1909].
A curious play with Saint Peter, Pope Pius VI, Vittorio Emanuele II, Garibaldi, all at the entrance to heaven. "Pietro" (mispelled "Pitero") says to himself, "It's really worth the trouble to abandon the lake, the fishing nets, the free life, to…
Caricatures in four parts | Caricature in quattro parti. New York: La Follia di New York - Marziale Sisca, 1908.
This is the rare first edition of a series of editions of this popular collection of caricatures drawn by the great Neapolitan tenor, Enrico Caruso (b. Naples, 1873; d. Naples, 1921). La Follia di New York published Caruso’s caricatures in individual…
Della convenienza che l'Italia artistica ed industriale partecipi all'esposizione di Saint-Louis (Missouri) [Of the Advantage for Artistic and Industrial Italy taking part in the Exposition of Saint-Louis (Missouri)]. Torino: Tip. Roux e Viarengo, 1904.
Inscribed by author, former Italian ambassador to Washington, this is a lecture that he was invited to give in late 1903 at several Chambers of Commerce of the Kingdom to demonstrate the advantage that Italian arts and industries would receive by…
Scienza e fede [Science and Faith]. Philadelphia: Social Printing Co., 1908.
Barbato (b. 1856, Piana dei Greci, d. 1923, Milan) was a Sicilian medical doctor, socialist and politician, one of the national leaders of the Fasci Siciliani (Sicilian Leagues), a popular movement of democratic and socialist inspiration in…
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…
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.