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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…

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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…

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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…

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This comprehensive text on the United States for young Italians was written by the author of the later New York publication, Grammatica-enciclopedia italiana-inglese, q.v. Included is a history of the U.S., discussions on religion, politics, commerce…

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This is the Italian-language version of a French anarchist's perspective on the Morral affair, an attempted assassination of the Spanish King Alfonso XIII and his bride, Victoria Eugenie, on their wedding day, May 31, 1906 by Mateu Morral, who threw…

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"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…

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For several years, I had a facsimile copy of this important work. Then to my surprise, the original - impossible to find - became available.Carlo Camillo Di Rudio (1832-1910), one of the most colorful of 19th century Italian immigrants, to be sure,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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In the 62 pages of this work are essays by various writers. Of particular note at the end, however, is a 4-page catalogue of other books published by the Libreria Sociologica.

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Prefatory essay by Bernard Lazare; 13 pages of historical references, by date, from March 1906 through March 1907 [it says "1897"]; other essays by him, and other Italians (including Luigi Fabbri), and works translated from French and German…

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After a 15-page almanac of historical events associated with each day of the year, there are essays by Luisa Migel, Pietro Gori, Joe Hill, and Clifford Howard. List of "opere" and "opuscoli" by anarchists are in the rear. Rear cover: "La Nostra…

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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…

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Gaetano Bresci was a weaver working in Paterson, NJ in the 1890s, part of the vibrant Italian anarchist community; he traveled to Italy planing to assassinate the king, and succeeded. His 1901 hanging while in prison for his crime was declared a…

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Preface by Guido Podrecca. This atheist, anarchist tract by the then editor of Paterson's La Questione Sociale, the anarchist newspaper, was soon afterward served with notice by the "Vigilance Committee of the Law and Order" of Paterson that they…

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Flamma's signature is on the copyright page: "This edition is limited to One Thousand copies, each bearing Author's Autograph." One of his volumes of Dramas was issued in New York, in 1909, in a luxurious edition enriched by a letter (little more…

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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.

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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…
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