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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…
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…
Tripoli italiana: La guerra italo-turca: le nostre prime vittorie- descrizioni ed appunti reordinati da Antonio De Martino [Italian Tripoli: the Italo-Turkish War: Our First Victories. Descriptions and notes reordered by Antonio De Martino]. New York: Società Libraria Italiana, 1911.
In rooting for Italy’s colonialist ventures (as he would root years later for Mussolini), the publisher Antonio De Martino lost no time: a state of war, as is noted early on in this work, had only just been declared by Italy against Turkey on…
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,…
Strenna almanacco anno 1919 e catalogo generale della Libreria Banca Tocci [Free Almanac for the year 1919 and General Catalogue of the Banca Tocci Bookstore]. New York: Libreria Banca Tocci, 1919.
See my essay (on the site) Italian American Book Publishing and Book Selling, for a discussion of this work.C. Calvosa (of whom Durante says nothing) signed the introductory note. Francesco Tocci, perhaps deceased by 1919, was the nephew of the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Nuovissima Grammatica Accelerata: Italiana-Inglese ed Enciclopedia Popolare con Pronunzia. Divisa in 11 Parti.[Newest Accelerated Italian-English Grammar and Popular Encyclopedia, with pronunciation. Divided in 11 parts]. New York: Libreria De Martino, Inc./Italian Book Company, [1963].
The original (1896) edition was self-published by the author; appears later to have sold the copyright to the IBC, and became a corporate officer of that publisher. De Gaudenzi's grammar was among the very first grammars composed in the Italian…
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…
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…
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.
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,…
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…
Lu sonnu di Monsignuri X: poimettu in lingua siciliana [The Sonnets of Monsignor X: Short Poem in Sicilian]. Brooklyn: Tip. Ital. del Rinascimento, 1912.
Dedicated to Riccardo Cordiferro. Pucciu (b. Italy, 1876; d. New York, 1927), or Puccio, was a sculptor and carver, with a studio in Brooklyn, as well as an accomplished dialect poet who began to publish verses in the literary and political magazine,…
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…
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…
La trovatella di Mulberry Street [The Foundling of Mulberry Street]. New York: Società Libraria Italiana, 1919.
Ciambelli (b. Lucca, 1862; d. New York, 1931) was the most celebrated and prodigious novelist — as many as eight novels of his were in print and for sale at the bookstore of Il Progresso Italo-Americano (advertisement, July 5, 1896) — as well as…
La società proletaria [Proletarian Society]. Brooklyn: Libreria Editrice dei Lavoratori Industriali del Mondo, 1910s.
This is one of two works by Braida, and in the same period, published by the Libreria Ed. dei Lavoratori industriali del Mondo, i.e., the I.W.W, and in the Collection. The other is Unionismo industriale, co-authored with Giovanni Baldazzi.
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…
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…
La chiave dei sogni e manualetto di chiromanzia [The Key to Dreams; and Little Manual of Palmistry]. New York: Vincenzo Ciocia, 1913.
This copy bears a copyright date of 1905, in contrast to date on the cover of 1913 for printing, as well as 89 Centre Street address, rather than the earlier 79 Centre Street, thus suggesting that this is a later printing by Vincenzo Ciocia at a…
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.…