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Almanacco enciclopedia italo americano 1913 [Italian American Encyclopedia Almanac for 1913]. New York: J. Personeni, 1913.
Note the advertisement on rear cover for L'Adunata dei Refrattari, not exactly consistent with the prominente press values that Personeni represented.
This otherwise general business-advertisement filled "almanac" is noteworthy for the 16-page…
A Primer of Civics: Manuale di cittadinanza: designed for the guidance of the immigrant. Chicago: Illinois Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1918.
The author, a Bohemian immigrant to the United States, began this series with an English-Bohemian version published in 1912, then English only (1912), English-Polish (1914), and English-Lithuanian (1915), just prior to this English-Italian version in…
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…
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…
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…
Fiamme: dramma in un atto; Memorie di un suicido: novella [Flames: Drama in One Act. Recollections of a Suicide]. New York: Nicoletti Bros. Editori, 1911.
Some years after Dramas, Flamma succeeded in getting Fiamme translated and published in English as Flames & Other Plays (New York, 1928). This volume consists of two works: the popular first-named play, originally written, performed, and…
Grammatica-enciclopedia Italiana-Inglese per gli Italiani degli Stati Uniti [Italian-English Grammar-Encyclopedia for the Italians of the United States]. New York: Nicoletti Bros. Press, 1912.
Please review the lengthy description of this work in this same first edition, second printing (1911-1912) for a detailed description of Pecorini's work. This appears to be one of two identical texts, identical editions, with the same cover,…
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…
Italian Lessons. New York: Italian Book Company New York, 1914 [copyright].
"New & Revised edition. " This "new and revised edition [was] printed from new plates." (From "new plates" is the very definition of a new edition.) This work is designed for the native English speaker eager to learn Italian.While no date other…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
Lettera Aperta: al Diffamatore Ettore Patrizi, Direttore-Proprietario del giornale "L'Italia" di San Francisco, Cal. [Open Letter: to the defaming Ettore Patrizi, Director-Owner of the newspaper "L'Italia" of San Francisco, California]. Sacramento: 1911.
This is a broadside that calls itself an "open letter" that is a complaint by the "subversives of Sacramento, California" about an article in the prominente newspaper owned and directed by Ettore Patrizi in San Francisco, L'Italia. The article was…
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…
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…
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…
Per le nuove generazioni [For the New Generations]. New York: Nicoletti Bros Press, 1911.
Born in Modena in 1877, Forzato-Spezia emigrated with her husband to the U.S. in 1891, and settled in West Hoboken, NJ. She opened a bookstore there renowned for its large selection of booklets of socialist propaganda and social novels. By 1907, she…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Uno storico processo di classe: I precedenti e lo svolgimento del processo dell'I.W.W. a Chicago, Illinois [An Historic Class Trial: the records and the development of the trial of the I.W.W. in Chicago]. [Chicago]: [Libreria Ed. I.W.W.], [1919].
The title on the cover also states, “Giustizia Capitalista” (Capitalist Justice), not present on title page. This work recounts the mass trial of I.W.W. members from 1917–1918 in the I.W.W.’s hometown of Chicago, in which a total of 820 years of…