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Il capitale: semplificato e volgarizzato ad uso degli operai [Capital: Simplified and Popularized for the Use of Workers]. Chicago: La Parola Printing & Publishing House, 1911.
This abridged and simplified version of Marx's foundational text of communism is preceded by a short explanation of Marx's life and works prepared by Giuseppe Bertelli, editor of La Parola dei Socialisti. This is volume 22 of the "Biblioteca de La…
Flamma Alitur [The Flame Still Burns]. New York: Nicoletti Bros Press, 1916.
This copy inscribed by author to Il Carroccio. Preface by Luigi Roversi.Salvo (b. Italy, 1889; active in New York through 1948), a freelance journalist, came to the U.S. in 1905. Based in New York, he collaborated in Italian language dailies and…
Il Martello [The Hammer]. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 1918-1943.
Carlo Tresca was the editor-in-chief (or equivalent) at several radical newspapers over his career, but the one that he founded and ran for decades — Il Martello — is the one most closely identified with him, and he with it. Tresca founded Il…
Il Martello [The Hammer], Anno II, IV - 1918-1919 (incomple)New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 1 Gennaio [January] 1918 - 16 Febbraio [February] 1919.
See the general entry for Il Martello for the years 1918-1943 (repeated in a few descriptions of individual issues) for the history of the founding and running by Carlo Tresca of this, perhaps the most famous and almost surely the most long-lived of…
Il Martello [The Hammer], Anno III & IV. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 19 issues: Incomplete Anno III, IV- 1918, 1919:
See the general entry for Il Martello for the years 1918-1943 (repeated in a few descriptions of individual issues) for the history of the founding and running by Carlo Tresca of this, perhaps the most famous and almost surely the most long-lived of…
Guardia Rossa: il terrore bianco in America [Red Guard: the white terror of America], No. 4. New York: A cura della Libreria Rossa, 1 Maggio [May] 1920.
This magazine by Carlo Tresca did not have a terribly long run, especially compared to his signature work, Il Martello, q.v. I do not know in what sense the "Red Guard" could have been considered a "white terror." (To say the obvious, Tresca, whose…
La regina Giovanna: emozionante romanzo storico napoletano [Queen Giovanna: stirring Neapolitan historical novel]. New York: Società Libraria Italiana, [1911?]
A good example of an import by the Italian Book Company; the only OCLC copies are in Italian libraries. Book ads appear on the verso of the title page for the U.S.-produced Molinari/Cordiferro Raccolta di discorsi published by the Italian Book…
Al di là dell' Oceano: per i nostri emigranti [Life beyond the ocean: for our emigrants.] Tivoli: Tipografia Ed. Moderna, 1914.
The author (about whom I have found nothing) tries to warn Italians that before they decide to emigrate either to North or to South America, they ought to know Italian laws on emigration, and what to expect when they arrive (and where to go), and…
La bandierina di Carlo Marx: dramma in un atto [The Pennant of Karl Marx: drama in one act]. Chicago: Italian Labor Publishing Co., [1917?]
It is unclear if this play, which is noted in Durante's text but not his bibliography, was ever produced. It reflects the ideal of international solidarity of the proletariat. Born into a family of Italian landed proprietors, Molinari (b. 1876- d.…
Le teorie di Cesare Lombroso: spiegate agli operai [The Theories of Cesare Lombroso, explained for workers]. Chicago: Edito a cura della "LIBRERIA SOCIALE", 1920.
The "secondo migliaio [second thousand]" noted on the cover and title page suggest this was a popular work. Specific issues discussed, after a biography of Lombroso, are "Delinquent Man," "Lombroso and the Man of Genius," "Lombroso and the…
Attraverso gli Stati Uniti per l'imagrazione italiana [Across the United States - through Italian Immigration]. Torino: Union Tip.-Ed. Torinese, 1913.
This copy of the celebrated study by Mayor des Planches (b. Turin, 1851; d. Rome, 1920), written during his years in the U.S., is inscribed by the author to a baronessa. During his travels across the U.S., while ambassador to Washington from…
Poesie [Poetry]. Costacciaro: Comune di Costacciaro, 2001.
This volume contains facsimile reproductions of five books of Bartoletti's poetry, including Nostalgie proletarie, Riflessioni Poetiche, and Nel sogno d'oltretomba. With a fine introduction by Martino Marazzi, noted scholar of Bartoletti and of…
Giorgio e Silvio (dialogo fra dei militari) [Giorgio and Silvio (dialogue between servicemen)]. Paterson: A cura della Libreria Sociologica, [1916].
This is a dramatic dialogue concluding with the two soldiers cheering for anarchy and calling for death to the oppressor.A dialogue between two people about political philosophy was a technique frequently employed by the left in works like this. See,…
Se si farà la rivoluzione in Italia, si morrà di fame? [Will We Die of Hunger if There's a Revolution in Italy?]. New York: Casa ed. Libreria Rossa, [c. 1921].
This work is taken from Umanità Nova, a Milanese leftist newspaper that was founded in 1920, and shut down by the fascists in 1922. "Libreria Rossa" was the name adopted by Carlo Tresca, and used used on Tresca's letterhead, along with Il Martello,…
Così parlò Debs: dinanzi alla Corte di Cleveland, Ohio [Thus Spoke Debs: in front of the Court of Cleveland, Ohio]. Chicago: Federazione Socialista Italiana, 1918.
This is an Italian-language translation from English by John La Duca of the address to the jurty by Socialist Party perenial Presidential candidate Eugene Debs on September 12, 1918.Note the compliance with a legal requirement of a representation…
Lu ciucciu. Poema in dialetto calabrese [The Donkey: poem in Calabrese dialect]. New York: Tipografia Sisca & Sons, 1913.
The only known book-length publication of Alessandro and Marziale Sisca's father, Francesco Sisca, or of the publisher or printer that bore their family name, this poem was a “bilingual” collaboration — Calabrian dialect by the father, and Italian…
Dizionario moderno Italiano-Inglese, Vol. I/Modern Italian-English Dictionary, Vol. II [Facsimile]. New York: Società Libraria Italiana, 1916.
At 471 pages, this Italian-English dictionary, Volume 1, is immediately followed by a Volume 2, an English-Italian one, though called "Modern Italian-English Dictionary," weighing in at 348 pages. It was one of the earliest of the "made in America"…
Se dovessi parlare agli elettori: ecco quanto direi loro [If I Had to Speak with the Electorate, Here is What I Would Tell Them]. East Boston: Gruppo Autonomo, [191-?]
Translation of work of French anarchist anti-electoral essay. Gruppo Autonomo was Galleani's violent anarchist cell that included Sacco & Vanzetti.French journalist, editor, theorist, novelist, educator, and campaigner, Jean Grave was one of the…
Nofrio senzale di matrimoni [Nofrio, matrimonial agent][Facsimile]. New York: Casa ed. Biblioteca Siciliana (presso la "Follia"), 1919.
De Rosalia was a leader in the Italian American vaudeville scene in New York. He premiered on the New York stage in 1903, shortly after his arrival in America. In 1904, he became a teacher in the New York public schools, and gave English lessons to…
Raccolta di brindisi per ogni occasione in dialetto siciliano [Collection of toasts for every occasion in Sicilian dialect] [Facsimile]. New York: Societa Libraria Italiana - Italian Book Company, [1916].
With a publication date of 1916, this work appears to have preceded the enormously popular 1917 Raccolta di discorsi per ogni occasione; Brindisi ed augurii of Molinari and Cordiferro, q.v., which was a lengthy work (320 pages) containing speeches…
Raccolta di discorsi per ogni occasione; Brindisi ed augurii [Collected Speeches for Every Occasion; Toasts and Greetings]. New York: Società Libraria Italiana, [1920's]
This is Copy 2: Rome printing: Each of these two not quite identical editions — one printed in Rome and in New York purportedly both in 1917, but for the reason explained below, this Rome publication must date from 1923 or later. It appears from…
Raccolta di discorsi per ogni occasione; Brindisi ed augurii [Collected Speeches for Every Occasion; Toasts and Greetings]. New York: Società Libraria Italiana, 1917.
The Collection boasts two quite different editions of this popular work (to judge from the high survival rate reflected in the frequent availability for purchase of this work).Copy 1: the New York printing, this edition: Each of these two not quite…
Rosmunda [Facsimile]. New York: Nicoletti Bros Press, 1915.
Rosmunda is the rare example of a screenplay written in the Italian community.Cadicamo (b. Cosenza, 1842; emigrated to U.S. in 1887 - d. New York 1921) was part of an Arbresh (Italian-Albanian) family. He was an editor of L'Eco d'Italia from…
Il diavolo biondo [The Blond Devil][Facsimile]. New York: Nicoletti Bros Press, 1916.
Stanco’s eloquence and pessimism are amply illustrated in Il diavolo biondo. Martino Marazzi's Voices of Italian America: a History of Early Italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology (Madison, 2004) contains an excerpt from this work in…
Militarismo e miseria: dramma in 3 atti [Militarism and Misery: drama in three acts]. Brooklyn: Tip. Guerriero, 1916.
The action of this anti-war play unfolds in a little town in northern Italy during the "giornate rosse [Red Days]" of June 1914. The play was presented for the first time at the Filodrammatica Sovversiva di New York [Subversive Amateur Dramatic…