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Il Presidente Scoppetta, ovvero La Società della Madonna della Pace [President Scoppetta, or The Society of Our Lady of Peace (from its founding to its dissolution)]. Philadelphia: [n.p.], 1927.
This parody by Seneca (b. Benevento, 1890 - d. Philadelphia, 1952), a professor of languages at the University of Pennsylvania, reflects the bitter laugh of early Italian American comedy. It is filled with a corrupted version of dialect, along with…
Il Proletario [The Worker], Anno 27. Chicago: Industrial Workers of the World, 1923.
The full run of issues of Il Proletario from 1923, the companion volume of the 1924 full run in the collection.The front page of the May Day 1923 issue of Il Proletario feautres a striking cover illustration, captioned “The heads of the monstrous…
Il Proletario [The Worker], Anno 28. Chicago, Brooklyn: Industrial Workers of the World, 1924.
The full run of issues of Il Proletario from 1924, companion volume to the full run of 1923 issues also in the collection.This most important I.W.W. newspaper (which began in 1896 and lasted until 1946) was edited at various times by an all-star list…
Il Proletario [The Worker]. Chicago: Industrial Workers of the World, 1923-1924.
The I.W.W. Italian language newspaper, Il Proletario, has a glorious and lengthy history of many decades and almost unique importance in the Italian American non-anarchist left. It was started by Italian socialists in 1896 in Pittburgh, and soon…
Il supremo ideale umano raggiunto [The Supreme Ideal Human Reached]. Chicago: [n.p.], 1926.
One of the odder publications of Carnovale, a journalist whose most important work, also in the collection, is Il giornalismo degli emigrati italiani del Nord America. Carnovale seems to have prided himself on the breadth of genres in which to…
Italian Lessons. New York: Italian Book Company New York, 1914 [copyright].
"Seventh Edition."It would not be until an Eighth edition in 1933, q.v. - 24 years after the original 1909 publication - that the reader would be reminded that despite the 1914 date that appears in every edition (the Fifth and Seventh before the…
Italian Lessons. New York: Italian Book Company New York, 1914 [copyright].
Fifth Edition. It seems likely that this Fifth, and the Seventh Edition, q.v., date from sometime in the 1920s, but there is no evidence in the book or otherwise to pin this down.Here, as with Pecorini's Grammatica enciclopedia, I adhere to G. Thomas…
L'attentato a Mussolini ovvero Il segreto di Pulcinella [The Attempt on Mussolini: or the Secret of Pulcinella]. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello", 1925.
The premiere performance of this play opened at the Central Opera House, located at 205 East 67th Street in New York on Sunday, December 13, 1925. It was based on actual historical circumstances — namely, a staged attentato, or attempt (to…
L'I.W.W. nella teoria e nella pratica [The I.W.W. in Theory and Practice]. Chicago: Ed. a cura della Industrial Workers of the World, [c. 1922].
The English language original of this 1920 work remains in print in a fifth edition. It has been translated into 8 languages. This translation from the English-language original was intended to reach an Italian-language-only audience of workers who…
La crisi del socialismo [The Crisis of Socialism]. Chicago: Ed. a cura de "Il Proletario", 1922.
A text by anarcho-syndicalist Enrico Meledandri, with sections titled, translated here, “The Fate of Socialism,” “Inert Maximalism,” “Scientific Socialism,” and “Misery and Revolution.” Note that the same printer’s mark of the I.W.W. appears on the…
La fine dell' anarchismo? [The End of Anarchism?] New York: Ed. curata da vecchi lettori di Cronica Sovversiva, 1925.
This is in part the transcript of an interview between socialist and anarchist writer and attorney for the anarchists, Francesco Saverio Merlino, and Cesare Sobrero of the Italian daily, La Stampa, and in part, following the interview, Galleani’s…
La secessione della "Sons of Italy Grand Lodge": Studi polemici sui diversi problemi degl'italiani in America; con prefazione del Dr. Ornello Simone [The Secession of the "Sons of Italy Lodge": Polemical Studies on Various Problems of Italians in America, with a preface by Dr. Ornello Simone]. New York: Colamco Press, 1926.
This one-of-a-kind 1926 volume tells of the internal struggles of the Sons of Italy during the fascist era about whether to support the fascist regime in Italy. Benanti seems to have been pro-fascist, but see discussion below of his later…
Mischia sociale (da . . . alla Cooper Union) [Social Brawl (from . . . at Cooper Union)]. Brooklyn: Edizioni sociali, [1930].
An excerpt from this work is published in Durante. On April 6, 1930, in a public debate at Cooper Union in New York, Borghi participated in the debate on the theme "I problemi della rivoluzione italiana dopo l'abbattimento del fascismo" (the problems…
Mussolini in camicia [Mussolini in a Nightshirt]. New York: Edizioni Libertarie, 1927.
Armando Borghi’s unflattering biography of Mussolini, Mussolini in camicia, was too dangerous (to author, publisher or printer) to be released in Italy: soon after Mussolini’s rise to power in 1922, publishing a work criticizing him or the Fascist…
Organizzazione e anarchia [Organization and Anarchy]. Paris: L. Chauvet, [1927?]
That the story of the transnational work of a figure like Malatesta was written in Italian, published in New York, and printed in Paris by an Italian printer, Tipografia Sociali, is testimony to the international nature of the anarchist movement.…
Poesie di Thomas Fragale [Poems of Thomas Fragale]. Kansas City: Tipografia Mario Porretti, [1929].
Born in 1855, Fragale emigrated from a town near Catanzaro in Calabria in 1892. He wrote poetry while pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Hammondton, NJ, until 1900. The generally patriotic and pro-monarchial tone of his verses separates him from…
Regolamento della Grande Loggia dello stato di New York: approvato dalla Convenzione Straordinaria di New York del Giugno 1919 ed emendato e approvato dalla Grande Convenzione Ordinario di Amsterdam, N.Y., dell'Agosto 1922 [Regulations of the Grand Lodge of the State of New York; approved by the Extraordinary Convention of New York, June 1919 and amended and approved by the Grand Lodge at the Regular Convention of Amsterdam, NY, of August 1922]. New York: Il Carroccio Publ. Co., [1922].
Order Sons of Italy; Ordine Figli d'Italia in America.
Rendiconto Finaziario del Comitato di Difesa pro Sacco e Vanzetti. 5 maggio 1920- 31 ottobre 1923 [Financial Report of the Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Committee. May 5, 1920- October 31, 1923]. Boston: Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Com., 1923.
Financial reporting listing contributors and thier amounts, with a two-page preface by Felicani, the treasurer of the Committee, and a one-page statement by Sacco and Vanzetti themselves.I find no copies of this in OCLC.
Resoconto del processo avanti la Corte d'Assise di Viterbo contro Schicchi Paolo [Report of the Trial before the Court of Assizes in Viterbo against Paolo Schicchi]. New York: Bolletini Speciali del tempo, 1925.
This work is a report of Paolo Schicchi's trial for attempted murder and other crimes allegedly committed by this anarchist. It includes a statement by the Sicilian-born but international revolutionary anarchist himself, as well as transcripts of…
Rivista d'Italia e d'America [Magazine of Italy and of America]/ Italy-America Review. New York: Casa ed. della "Rivista d'Italia e d'America", 1926. Anno IV, Num. XI (novembre 1926).
This magazine "of Italy and of America," or in English "Italy-America Review," published in Rome, nominally has editorial addresses also in New York and Cordoba, Argentina, this last reflecting the magazine's boast that it covers Italian life in…
Scritti politici e letterarii: raccolti ed ordinati da Giovanni Di Gregorio [Political and Literary Writings: gathered and ordered by Giovanni di Gregorio]. New York: Venanzi Memorial Committee, 1921.
This compilation of the writings of Flavio Venanzi (b. Roma, 1882; d. New York, 1920) has a book cover design by sculptor Onorio Ruotolo (q.v.), a eulogy by Enrico Leone, and an introduction by Arturo Giovannitti (q.v.). Venanzi was Il Proletario’s…
Sull'Oceano: romanzo [On the Ocean: a novel] [Facsimile]. New York: Tip. Ed. L. Scarlino, 1921.
Stanco is considered one of the most sophisticated of the Italian-language fiction writers, yet it is impossible to find copies of any of his novels, so I'm happy to have one of his more famous novels (taken from the title of Edmondo De Amicis's…
Tormento [Torment]. Paris: La Fraternelle, 1929.
In 1929 La Fraternelle in Paris published this, D'Andrea's first book of poetry, about her own personal anguish and social struggles, shortly after D'Andrea had entered the U.S. See Richiamo all'anarchia for her bio.Note, on the title page, that this…
Ultra! - teoria dei geni e dei gagliardi [Ultra! theory of the Geniuses and the Strong]. New York: Casa ed. "L'Innovazione", [n.d.]
Vella, an anarchist and Spanish Civil War veteran, briefly visited the US in 1923, where he was a contributor to Il Martello, and witness for the defense in Carlo Tresca's trial for sending obscene material through the mails. Arrested at a rally in…
Umanità Nova: periodico libertario, Anno II, No. 10. Brooklyn, 1 Maggio [May] 1925.
See main entry (for all five issues) for a description of this "libertarian" anarchist newspaper, shut down by the fascists in Milan in 1922, when edited from Rome by Malatesta, according to Enrico Arrigoni, as quoted in Avrich, and then reborn in…