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Nuovissima Grammatica Accelerata Italiana-Inglese e guida pratica dell'italiano in America. Corso Complete per imparare a scrivere, parlare e comprendere la lingua inglese in breve tempo senza maestro [Newest Accelerated Italian-English Grammar and Practical Guide for the Italian in America. Complete course for learning to write, speak and understand the English language in a short time, without a teacher]. New York: A. Gaudenzi & Co., 1914.
This work in the 1914 "latest edition" (as indicated on the cover but not on the title page) was originally issued in 1896, when it was copyrighted by Angelo De Gaudenzi & Co., and renewed in 1900, see verso of title page, just a few years after…
Il Carroccio (The Italian Review): rivista di coltura propaganda e difesa italiana in America, Anno 5 [Facsimile]. New York: Il Carroccio Publishing Co., 1919.
See general entry for Il Carroccio for its history and place in Italian American publishing.
La Russia in fiamme [Russia in Flames]. New York: Casa Editrice "I Giovani", 1919.
The subject of La Russia in fiamme is one Vacirca knew well from his interviews (while a senator in Italy) with Lenin and Trotsky: the Russian Revolution, from its inception in 1917. The first few pages feature quotations in French (Romain Rolland)…
L'I.W.W.: la sua storia, struttura e metodi [The I.W.W.: its History, Structure and Methods]. Brooklyn: Libreria Ed. Del Lavoratori Industriali del Mondo, [c. 1919].
Like Che cosa è l’I.W.W.?, this work and L'I.W.W. nella teoria e nella pratica of Justus Ebert three years later, in Chicago, q.v., are translations from English-language originals, intended to reach an Italian-language-only audience of workers who…
Max Stirner: un refrattario [Max Stirner: a Recalcitrant]. East Boston: Biblioteca del Gruppo Autonomo, 1914.
Roudine wrote this work in his native French, and published it in a bi-weekly periodical in 1911 directed by Henri Fabre in Paris. Max Stirner appeared in Italian first in issues of La Cronaca Sovversiva between January and April of that year,…
Argomenti libertari (pagine di propaganda antiparlamentare) [Libertarian Arguments (pages of anti-Parliamentarian propaganda)]. Milano: Libreria Editrice Sociale, 1911.
Stamp on front: "Libreria ed. ELVIRA CATELLO 1946 First Avenue, New York City|Manifattura di Calendari Artistici e Cartoline Illustrate| Catalogo a Richiesta [manufacturer of artistic calendars and illustrated postcards | catalogue on request]";…
Costituzione e regolamenti della Società Italiana di Mutuo Soccorso di North Adams, Mass. [Constitution and Regulations of the Italian Society of Mutual Aid of North Adam's, Mass.]. Springfield, Mass.: Tip. Ed. de "L'Eco Coloniale," 1914.
Mutual aid societies among the Italians were an important social mechanism for earlier immigrants to help more recent ones. Although we associate them with urban more than with rural areas, here is an example of the "constitution and rules" of one in…
Il prete attraverso la storia: conferenza di Riccardo Cordiferro [The Priest through History: lecture by Riccardo Cordiferro]. Barre: Edito a cura del Circolo di Studi Sociali, [1915].
Dedicated to Miss Alice Griffith and Elizabeth Ash; 27 photo illustrations printed in part "with the kind permission of Mr Lorenzo Sosso," and in part with permission of New San Francisco Magazine.See discussion of this work in the essay by Francesco…
Ermete Novelli: Conferenza letta la sera del 27 Aprile 1919 alla "Irish Federation Hall" di New York per l'inaugurazione del "Circolo Filodrammatica Ermete Novelli" [Ermete Novelli: lecture read the evening of 27 April 1919 at "Irish Federation Hall" of New York for the opening of the "Philodrammatic Circle of Ermete Novelli."] New York: Manhattan Printing Co., 1919.
As the title of this work explains, this talk was given by Cordiferro at the opening of the Philodrammatic Circle of Ermete Novelli.Ermete Novelli was an Italian tragedian who, beginning in 1907, toured in the U.S. (after having done so for years…
Memorandum coloniale ossia sintesi storica di osservazioni e fatti che diano un'idea generale della vita coloniale degli italiani nel Nord America con monografia illustrativa della colonia di Philadelphia [Colonial Memorandum, or Historical Synthesis of Observations & facts which give a general idea of the colonial life of Italians in North America with an illustrated monograph of the colony of Philadelphia]. Philadelphia: "La Forbice", 1911.
This is stated to be second volume; no copy of this second volume found in any library. The first volume was published by "Mastro Paolo" in 1910-1912, copies of which are in the Rutgers & U. of Michigan libraries. On rear cover, notice that "Il…
Nix il figlio dell'Austriaco [Nix, the Austrian's Son][Facsimile]. New York: Italian Book Company, 1920.
This is a complicated story of love and espionage behind the front line during the Great War, according to Durante.
La guerra italo-austriaca 1915-1919 [The Italian-Austrian War, 1915-1919]. New York: Società Libraria Italiana, 1919.
Pallavicini (b. Torino (according to Flamma) or Milan (according to Schiavo) as Pallavicini-Pirovano, 1886; d. San Francisco, 1938) began his American writing career in New York, publishing this work with the Società Libraria Italiana, founded and…
Le variazioni [Changes]. New York: Il Carroccio Publ. Co., 1916.
This is the rare "secondo impressione/ secondo migliaio" in books published by Italians. Note that though published by Il Carroccio, the book was printed by Emporium Press, Francesco Tocci's shop. (Soon after this 1916 publication, Il Carroccio…
La responsabilità e la solidarietà nella lotta operaia: rapporto letto alla "Freedom Discussion Group" il 5 dicembre 1899 [Responsibility and Solidarity in the Workers' Struggle: report read to the "Freedom Discussion Group," December 5, 1899]. Barre: Casa ed. L'Azione, 1913.
Biblioteca di Propaganda Rivoluzionaria. A short report written by German anarchist Max Nettlau. It was published by the book arm of L’Azione, a critical weekly of revolutionary propaganda based in Barre, VT, where Luigi Galleani settled after postal…
Spose di guerra: dramma in un atto [War Brides: drama in one act]. New York: Casa ed. "Il Martello", [1915].
This feminist, anti-war play is the best known work of socialist and suffragette Wentworth (b. 1872 - d. 1942); it's a topic that would have appealed to Carlo Tresca, proprietor of Il Martello and its book publishing arm. Tresca also used the…
Diario di una piccola profuga friulana: episodi dell'invasione del Veneto, 1917 [Diary of a little Friulian refugee: episodes in the invasion of the Veneto, 1917]. New York: Il Carroccio, 1919.
This "diario," with both dated and undated entries in November 1917 through the same month in 1918, is a memoir of Maria Luisa Francesconi, a refugee from Friuli to the U.S. Her travails within Italy by train to escape aerial bombardment of the…
The Italian Cook Book: the Art of Eating Well. New York: Italian Book Co., 1919.
This is the rare Italian Book Company book in English (Mussolini's biography of Jan Hus is the other in the Collection). This cook book - typical in some ways of IBC publications, mostly imported, about home and hearth - is much sought after,…
Lavoro e surmenage [Work and Burnout]. Barre: Casa ed. L'Azione, [191-].
Translated from French (Travail et surmenage); part of Biblioteca di Propaganda Rivoluzionaria, part of Galleani's group of Italian anarchists in Vermont. Sacco and Vanzetti belonged to this group.Pierrot (1871-1950) published this work in French as…
Faccia a faccia col nemico: cronache giudiziarie dell'anarchismo militante [Face to Face with the Enemy: Judicial chronicles of militant anarchism]. East Boston: Edizione Del Gruppo Autonomo, 1914.
This text is a lengthy work containing fifteen articles and essays from (and printed by the book publishing arm of) the anarchist Cronaca Sovversiva, led by author Luigi Galleani, describing various bombings by militant anarchists and their trials…
Madri d'Italia! (per Augusto Masetti) [Italian Mothers (for Augusto Masetti)]. Lynn, MA: Tipografia della Cronaca Sovversiva, 1913.
A pamphlet of 24 pages, this work addresses Italian mothers about the injustices of a nation whose sons return from war, mutilated and undone. In particular it calls for the release of Augusto Masetti, a soldier who, during the Libyan war, is alleged…
Soltanto l'eliminazione della neutralità potrà subito e per sempre impedire le guerre [Only the Elimination of Neutrality will be able Suddenly and for Always to Stop Wars]. Chicago: Italian-American Publishing Co., 1920.
As he did in his work on Italian-American journalism, q.v., Carnovale provides at the end of this pamphlet several pages of, as translated from the Italian, "judgments of American newspapers on my bilingual book, Why Italy Entered into the Great War…
La vigilia: dramma in tre atti [On the Eve: drama in three acts]. East Boston: Edizione Del Gruppo Autonomo, 1917.
La vigilia is the first Italian translation “by A.M.G.” — who would be known by readers to be Arturo M. Giovannitti — of Leopold Kampf’s popular play written in German, Am vorabend. The work was intended to serve as entertainment as well as for the…
Unionismo industriale e trade-unionismo: può un socialista e industrialista far parte dell'A.F. of L.?: resoconto stenografico del contradittorio tra [Ettor] and [Caroti] tenutosi a New York il 26 Marzo 1911 [Industrial Unionism and Trade Unionism: Can a socialist and industrialist belong to the A[merican] F[ederation] of L[abor]? Stenographic account of the debate between Joseph J. Ettor and Arthur Caroti held in New York on the 26th of March 1911]. Chicago: I.W.W., [1911].
In the year following this “debate” between the revolutionary trade unions of the I.W.W. (and the Federazione) and the reformist A.F. of L., Joseph Ettor became one of the leaders of the Lawrence “Bread and Roses” strike of 1912. It was fateful that…
Guida degli Stati Uniti per l'immigrante italiano [Guide to the United States for the Italian Immigrant]. New York: Societa delle Figlie della Rivoluzione Americana, 1913.
Same author and text generally as the other copy in the collection, q.v.
Il processo muto di Sacramento, Cal. The Silent Trial of Sacramento, Cal. Brooklyn: Ed. a cura del Libreria del Lavoratori Industriali del Mondo, [1919].
This "silent" trial was part of a "frame-up," as author Jacopo Tori says. Before the "famous bombing" of July 1916, the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco had collected a million dollars to fight organized labor in California. General strikes took…