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I tre cavalieri di Trinacria [The Three Sicilian Horsemen]. New York: [n.p.] [G.P. Printing], 1929.
This cloak-and-dagger “historical novel” set in mid-19th century Sicily, is prefaced with a poem that praises fascism and wishes Mussolini a long life, follows Pellegrino’s first novel, I misteri di New York, q.v., by some 26 years. Francesco Durante…
L'Italia sotto il Fascismo: ii suoi aspetti economici, politici e morali: discussi in contradittorio dal Prof. Gaetano Salvemini e dal Prof. Bruno Roselli: con premessa e commenti di G. Di Gregorio [Italy under Fascism: its economic, political and moral aspects: discussions in debate of Prof. Gaetano Salvemini and of Prof. Bruno Roselli, with introduction and comments of G. Di Gregorio]. New York: "Il Martello" Publ. Co., Inc., [1927].
This work is an account, translated from the English original, of a debate between Salvemini and Roselli that took place on January 22, 1927 in New York under the auspices of the Foreign Policy Association on the theme of "Italy under Fascism."…
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…
Casa Savoia, Vol. II [House of Savoy, Vol. II]. East Boston: Ediz. de "L'Aurora", 1929.
A good example of the international nature of anarchism is reflected in the changing places of publishing of different volumes of the same work: Casa Savoia, Vol. I was published but in Buenos Aires in 1927, two years before the publication of this…
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…
Fra gli italiani degli Stati Uniti d'America [Among the Italians of the United States of America]. Roma: Stabilimento Poligrafico per l'amministrazione della guerra, 1922.
Siciliani (b. 1879 Ciro, Calabria - d. Roma 1938) was capo (or head) di Stato Maggiore (the general staff) to General Pietro Badoglio at the time of publishing this work about his trip to America. The work begins with a facsimile of a handwritten…
Premiata fabbriche di armoniche [Prizewinning Accordion Factory]. Firenze: Borrani - Firenze, 1928.
This trade catalogue contains glorious color illustrations of accordions made at the center of world-wide accordion manufacture for more than 150 years: in Castelfidardo, Italy, where Paolo Soprani had been "since 1863." While the catalogue itself is…
Eresia: di oggi e di domani, per l'affrancamento dell'individuo [Heresy: of Today and Tomorrow, for the Liberation of the Individual], No. 5. Bronx, Settembre [September] 1928.
See the main entry for Eresia, below, for a discussion of this anarchist magazine published in the Bronx.
Eresia: di oggi e di domani, per l'affrancamento dell'individuo [Heresy: of Today and Tomorrow, for the Liberation of the Individual], No. 9. Bronx, Marzo [March] 1929.
See the main entry for Eresia, below, for a discussion of this anarchist magazine published in the Bronx.
Il Carroccio (The Italian Review): rivista di coltura propaganda e difesa italiana in America, Anno 12, Vol. 23. New York: Il Carroccio Publishing Co., Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1926.
This six-month period includes Eugenio C. Branchi's "Sarete mia, Laura," a novella by Nelly Valgolio, and an essay by Mussolini (Jan.); an essay by Giovanni Preziosi (Feb.); a piece by futurist theorist F. T. Marinetti, "Come nacque il Fascismo" and…
Il Carroccio (The Italian Review): rivista di coltura propaganda e difesa italiana in America, Anno 12, Vol. 24. New York: Il Carroccio Publishing Co., Luglio [July] - Dicembre [December] 1926.
See both the description in the 1915 volume below (Il Carroccio, Anno 1, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-12 - Agosto [August] - Dicembre [December] 1915) and in the "main entry" hyperlinked at the end (1915-1932) for Il Carroccio's history and place in Italian…
Il Carroccio (The Italian Review): rivista di coltura propaganda e difesa italiana in America, Anno 13, Vol. 25. New York: Il Carroccio Publishing Co., Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1927.
See both the description in the 1915 volume below (Il Carroccio, Anno 1, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-12 - Agosto [August] - Dicembre [December] 1915) and in the "main entry" hyperlinked at the end (1915-1932) for Il Carroccio's history and place in Italian…
Il Carroccio (The Italian Review): rivista di coltura propaganda e difesa italiana in America, Anno 13, Vol. 26. New York: Il Carroccio Publishing Co., Luglio [July] - Dicembre [December] 1927.
See both the description in the 1915 volume below (Il Carroccio, Anno 1, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-12 - Agosto [August] - Dicembre [December] 1915) and in the "main entry" hyperlinked at the end (1915-1932) for Il Carroccio's history and place in Italian…
Il Carroccio (The Italian Review): rivista di coltura propaganda e difesa italiana in America, Anno 14, Vol. 27. New York: Il Carroccio Publishing Co., Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1928.
See both the description in the 1915 volume below (Il Carroccio, Anno 1, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-12 - Agosto [August] - Dicembre [December] 1915) and in the "main entry" hyperlinked at the end (1915-1932) for Il Carroccio's history and place in Italian…
Il Carroccio (The Italian Review): rivista di coltura propaganda e difesa italiana in America, Anno 14, Vol. 28. New York: Il Carroccio Publishing Co., Luglio [July] - Dicembre [December] 1928.
See both the description in the 1915 volume below (Il Carroccio, Anno 1, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-12 - Agosto [August] - Dicembre [December] 1915) and in the "main entry" hyperlinked at the end (1915-1932) for Il Carroccio's history and place in Italian…
Il Carroccio (The Italian Review): rivista di coltura propaganda e difesa italiana in America, Anno 15, Vol. 29. New York: Il Carroccio Publishing Co., Gennaio [January] - Maggio [May] 1929.
See both the description in the 1915 volume below (Il Carroccio, Anno 1, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-12 - Agosto [August] - Dicembre [December] 1915) and in the "main entry" hyperlinked at the end (1915-1932) for Il Carroccio's history and place in Italian…
Il Carroccio (The Italian Review): rivista di coltura propaganda e difesa italiana in America, Anno 15, Vol. 30. New York: Il Carroccio Publishing Co., Luglio [July] - Dicembre [December] 1929.
See both the description in the 1915 volume below (Il Carroccio, Anno 1, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-12 - Agosto [August] - Dicembre [December] 1915) and in the "main entry" hyperlinked at the end (1915-1932) for Il Carroccio's history and place in Italian…
Il Carroccio (The Italian Review): rivista di coltura propaganda e difesa italiana in America, Anno 16, Vol. 31. New York: Il Carroccio Publishing Co., Gennaio [January] - Giugno [June] 1930.
See both the description in the 1915 volume below (Il Carroccio, Anno 1, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-12 - Agosto [August] - Dicembre [December] 1915) and in the "main entry" hyperlinked at the end (1915-1932) for Il Carroccio's history and place in Italian…
Il Carroccio (The Italian Review): rivista di coltura propaganda e difesa italiana in America, Anno 16, Vol. 32. New York: Il Carroccio Publishing Co., Luglio [July] - Dicembre [December] 1930.
See both the description in the 1915 volume below (Il Carroccio, Anno 1, Vol. 2, Nos. 7-12 - Agosto [August] - Dicembre [December] 1915) and in the "main entry" hyperlinked at the end (1915-1932) for Il Carroccio's history and place in Italian…
Con la patria nel cuore: la mia propaganda fra gli emigranti [With the Fatherland in my Heart: My Propagandizing among the Immigrants]. Palermo: Casa ed. D'Antoni, 1925.
Francesco Durante refers to Teresi (b. Alia (Palermo), Italy 1875 - d. Rochester, NY 1971) as an Italian-American intellectual. He came to the U.S. in 1907, earned a law degree here, and became a bank teller in Rochester. He wrote the preface to…
Il cristianesimo e la questione sociale (contraddittorio Tresca-Griglio): conferenza tenuta il 14 luglio 1922 a New Jork, alla Manhattan Hall, ad iniziativa del Comitato pro vitime politiche [Christianity and the Social Question (Tresca-Griglio Debate): Lecture Held on July 14, 1922 at New York at Manhattan Hall at the initiation of the Committee for Political Victims]. Roma: Stab. Pol. Ed. Romana, 1922.
This is a report of a debate between famously anti-clerical Carlo Tresca and the Rev. Griglio.It is one of a fair number of political events that took place in New York (in Manhattan Hall, in this case) or elsewhere in the U.S. that resonated enough…
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…
Attività Italiane in America [Italian Activities in America]. San Francisco: Mercury Press, 1930.
This bilingual work principally by a wealthy, upper-class San Francisco Italian, G. M. Tuoni, provides useful information about Italians on the West Coast that is often lacking in East Coast-oriented histories of Italians in the same period and…
Il fascismo [Fascism]. New York: Libreria del "Martello", [1922?].
Valera (b. Como 1850 - d. Milano 1926) was a prolific journalist and novelist - referred to as the "Zola of Italy" - who led an even more colorful life than his confreres among anti-fascists. He spent three years in prison in the late 1880s for his…
Anima rerum [The Spirit of Things]. Firenze: G. Barbera, 1924.
This is an earlier work published by Varvaro, a not unimportant Italian poet of the period known as a “poeta modernissimo.” See description of "San Giovannino" for more of the life of this upper class Sicilian immigrant, and how I came to acquire a…