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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…
Gli anarchici e le alleanze: conferenza … tenuta a sera del 12 Gennaio 1927 alla "Rand School" sotto gli auspici del gruppi: Volontà e South Brooklyn (con appendice di Luigi Fabbri) [Anarchists and Alliances: a Lecture Given on the Evening of January 12, 1927 at the Rand School under the auspices of the groups: Will and South Brooklyn]. New York: Circolo operaio di cultura sociale di New York, [1927].
The publication of the trasncript of an evening's lecture or, more so, a debate between speakers at a public meeting was not an unusual event, especially on the left.The Rand School of Social Science, founded in 1906 by adherents of the Socialist…
Pagine scelte [Selected Works]. Brooklyn Libreria dell'I.W.W., 1930.
This work contains Giovannitti’s speech (entitled “Davanti ai Giurati di Salem, Massachusetts” [Before the Jurors of Salem, Mass.]) in 1912 to the jurors in the trial at which he, Joseph Ettor and Joseph Caruso were accused of the murder of Anna Lo…
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.
L'ordine figli d'Italia in America. New York: Società Tipografica Italiana, 1925.
We have some biographical details about Aquilano, a free-lance journalist, from Flamma's Italiani di America (b. Chieti, 1885; d. New York?). He directed out of Milan the daily, and still one of today’s most popular Italian-language newspapers, Il…
The Story of a Proletarian Life. Boston: Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, 1924.
Translated from the Italian by Eugene Lyons, who wrote (and translated into Italian) Vita e morte di Sacco e Vanzetti, also in the collection in both its English original and Italian translation. It contains a forward by Alice Stone Blackwell and an…
Dio e patria: nel pensiero dei rinnegati. New York: [n.p.], [c. 1924-1925].
This work reproduces, first, the record of a debate on March 25, 1904 (and Mussolini’s preface thereto, dated July 1904), in Lausanne (Lossana), Switzerland between the then virulently anti-clerical young socialist Mussolini, already known for his…
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…
Il Martello [The Hammer], Vol. VII, No. 9. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 19 Marzo [March] 1921.
Carlo Tresca was the editor-in-chief (or equivalent) at several radical newspapers over his career, but the one that he founded and ran for decades — Il Martello — is the one most closely identified with him, and he with it. Tresca founded Il…
Il Martello [The Hammer], Vol. VII, No. 24. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 19 Luglio [July] 1921.
Carlo Tresca was the editor-in-chief (or equivalent) at several radical newspapers over his career, but the one that he founded and ran for decades — Il Martello — is the one most closely identified with him, and he with it. Tresca founded Il…
Il Martello [The Hammer], Vol. VII, No. 42. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 12 Dicembre [December] 1921.
Carlo Tresca was the editor-in-chief (or equivalent) at several radical newspapers over his career, but the one that he founded and ran for decades — Il Martello — is the one most closely identified with him, and he with it. Tresca founded Il…
Il Martello [The Hammer], Vol. VIII, No. 8. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 4 Marzo [March] 1922.
Carlo Tresca was the editor-in-chief (or equivalent) at several radical newspapers over his career, but the one that he founded and ran for decades — Il Martello — is the one most closely identified with him, and he with it. Tresca founded Il…
Il Martello [The Hammer], Vol. VIII, No. 14. New York: Casa Ed. "Il Martello," 27 Aprile [April] 1922.
See the general entry for Il Martello for the years 1918-1943 for the history of the founding and running by Carlo Tresca of this, perhaps the most famous and almost surely the most long-lived of the radical newspapers in Italian in the Italian…
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…
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…
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…
Bolocchi e profumi: tango [Playthings and Fragrances: tango]. Napoli: Casa ed. Musicale Tip.-Lit. F. De Luca [imported by Italian Book Co.], 1929.
This sheet music, like much of this genre imported by the Italian Book Company from Italy, was published in Italy by Casa ed. Musicale Tip.-Lit. F. De Luca, Napoli.But in case there was any doubt, on the cover, the verso of the cover, and on page 2…
Il primato degli italiani nella storia e nella civiltà americana: il breviario degli italiani d'America [The Preeminence of Italians in American History and Civilization: a Reference Guide of Italians in America]. Bologna: Licinio Cappelli, [1925].
Branchi was an Italian who published his work both in the old country and in the U.S. For a full bio of Branchi, see entry on Così parlò Mister Nature.This copy hold interest for another reason: note the book's owner's name on the title/half-title…
"Dagoes": novelle transatlantiche ["Dagoes": Transatlantic Stories]. Bologna: Licinio Cappelli, 1927.
Note the inscription of this copy by the author "al Professore Guglielmo Ferrero." Ferrero (b. 1871 — d. 1942) was an Italian historian, journalist and novelist, author of the Greatness and Decline of Rome (5 volumes, published after English…
Vita: satirico settimanale [Life: satirical weekly], Anno 1, No. 7. New York: E.M. Grella, 1 Decembre [December] 1929.
See general entry for this magazine for some history. Not to be confused with Vita: rivista dei nostri giorni of Giovannitti and Venanzi in 1915.
Vita: satirico settimanale [Life: satirical weekly], Anno 2, No. 2. New York: E.M. Grella, 12 Gennaio [January] 1930.
See the general entry for this magazine for some history. This satirical magazine is not to be confused with Vita: rivista dei nostri giorni of Giovannitti and Venanzi that was issued in 1915.The calendar depicted on the second interior page above is…
Manuale degli Stati Uniti: istruzioni ad uso degli immigranti e stranieri [Manual of the United States: Instructions for the Use of Immigrants and Foreigners]. Washington: Società Nazionale Figlie della Rivoluzione Americana, 1930.
There were 91 editions of this work published between 1923 and 2001 in 17 languages, and more entries in OCLC for this work than any other.Author Elizabeth C. Barney Buel (or Mrs. John Laidlaw Buel)(1868-1943) was a member of the Connecticut chapter…
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.